brink
noun
the edge or margin of a steep place or of land bordering water.
brinks
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pluralof brink.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“Terry gone need a brinks truck,” Commanders safety Jeremy Reaves tweeted shortly after Kirk’s deal.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
But these maniacs, these geneticists, these people are literally pushing the plant to the upper brinks.
From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2021
Speaking of brinks, Oregon seemed to find one hurriedly.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2019
No one else could have moved Sierra Leone from the brinks of collapse to the threshold of prosperity with the time Pa Kabba did.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2014
Jack Wingate lives in a little cottage whose bit of garden ground "brinks" the country road where the latter trends close to the Wye at one of its sharpest sinuosities.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
