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knife-edge

NOUN
  1. a narrow boundary
    he lived on a knife-edge between genius and insanity

How To Use knife-edge In A Sentence

  • After a year of falling markets, the US economy is now on a knife-edge.
  • Today he was wearing a dark jacket with light flannels pressed to knife-edged sharpness. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
  • The success of the project is still very much on a knife-edge.
  • The plan failed to achieve a simple majority of the Ankara parliament in a knife-edge vote on Saturday.
  • When I caught up with Bryan, he was gingerly backstepping along a knife-edge arête.
  • Living with him, she is constantly on a knife-edge.
  • Median incomes may be higher than the national average but many of the young families in these areas are on a financial knife-edge as a result of huge mortgages.
  • We could plainly see all the knife-edge creases in his trousers and the gleaming white blancoed webbing belt around his middle.
  • We dropped our packs and did a fast recon up to the base of Koh-i-Bardar to find our line: a steep couloir to a knife-edge ridge to the summit.
  • When the soldiers reached the knife-edged passage, he was prompted to warn them. Koolau the Leper
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