How to use "edge" in a sentence

About three metres from the edge of the drop is a boulder

I lie down, put my hands in two holes on the far edge of the boulder and push my legs over the opposite side to jump down.

I stand at the edge and look down

He laid Marius down gently at the edge of the sewer, and looked down at his face

So he stops on the edge of the desert, hides the flask of whiskey under the seat and lights a cigarette to cover the smell

He wants to sit down to look at them and moves closer to the edge.

So instead he stands on the edge

It was one of the best illusions available in the simulator, because if you stood at the edge of the cliff, it really felt like you could fall.

She sat on the edge of her bed, worrying

She waited there on the edge of her seat, anxious and impatient, as time passed

The night sky appeared behind him, then the flames at the edge of a star

De Winter stopped the car at the very edge

We both went down to the water's edge and threw more stones

At the edge of the woods was a low stone building, a cottage or a boat-house

Even when we have visitors, you sit on the edge of your chair and say only "yes" and "no".'

In the dream, Danny was standing at the edge of a bottomless gorge, and Tina was on the far side, opposite him, looking across the immense gulf

Many were still in the communal dressing rooms, while other girls, already costumed, waited in the halls or at the edge of the big stage, talking about children and husbands and boyfriends and recipes, as if they were secretaries on a coffee break and not some of the most beautiful women in the world.

She heard his frightened voice calling to her, and she peered over the edge of the pit, and he was so far below her that his face was only a tiny, pale smudge

She had to get down to him and push the earth away from his face before he suffocated, so in blind panic she threw herself over the edge of the pit, into the terrible abyss, falling and falling-

Then, as they stepped out of the rear entrance of the hotel and walked along the edge of the parking lot in the seventy-degree winter sunshine, he said, "So what did you want to talk about?"

He picked up his brandy snifter from the low table in front of the sofa, and he sat on the edge of her desk

She sighed and sipped some cognac and sat on the edge of the couch

She took the graphic novel out of the carton and sat on the edge of the bed in the tarnished-copper sunlight that fell like a shower of pennies through the window.

Sitting on the edge of the bed, she read the story again, hoping to see something important in it that she had overlooked in the first reading.

His ships, sealed in their glass worlds, relaxed him; he liked to spend time with them when he had a problem to work out or when he was on edge, for they made him feel serene, and that security allowed his mind to function at peak performance.

She put the pen at the edge of the map once more, and she let her eyes drift out of focus.

She and Elliot had turned off Interstate 80 a quarter of an hour ago, following the route Danny had marked, circling the edge of the wilderness

What could it be? What was their edge?

Alexander suddenly realized what their edge was, what kept them going, and he sat up straight in his chair

Tina pushed down the railing and sat on the edge of the bed and carefully pulled Danny into her arms

An edge of fear sharpened his voice, fear that hadn't been audible throughout the entire, nightmarish trip through the mountains

I saw a reddish flash at the edge, the slightest bend in its shape, as the clock struck midnight.

Then suddenly, he noticed that some of the burnt skin was falling off the round edge at the end

Going to the edge of the pit, I found a group of men in it - Henderson, Ogilvy, and a tall fair-haired man I afterwards learnt was Stent, the Astronomer Royal, with several workmen holding spades

There was a mouth under the eyes, and its lipless edge shone wetly

It had fallen over the edge of the cylinder and into the pit

At the sight of these strange, quick and terrible creatures, the crowd near the water's edge seemed for a moment to be totally shocked

The Heat- Ray came down to the water's edge less than fifty metres from where I stood

It was clear to me that the great tragedy in which he was involved - it seemed that he had escaped from Weybridge - had driven him to the edge of madness.

Along the edge of Regent's Park there were as many romantic couples as there had ever been

We now lay on the very edge of the enormous round pit that the Martians were making.

I came to the edge of Wimbledon Common and stood there, under cover of some trees and bushes

It stretched far and wide and I hesitated on the edge of that large open space

'This is my country: all this hill down to the river and up to the edge of the common

I turned and went into Park Road, intending to go round the edge of the park, with houses between us to keep me safe, and get a view of this unmoving, howling Martian from the direction of St John's Wood.

Across the pit, on its further edge, lay the great flying-machine which they had been testing in our heavier atmosphere when disease and death stopped them

They knew of it in Dublin, Edinburgh, Manchester and Birmingham at the time when I stood on the edge of the pit