How to Use on edge in a Sentence

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• While the film preview had many viewers on edge, not everyone was as concerned about its contents.
  — Angeline Jane Bernabe, ABC News, 21 July 2026
• Using a chunk of change on edge help is a realistic expectation.
  — The Athletic Nfl Staff, New York Times, 30 June 2026
• Some riders gallivant and whoosh past bystanders, weaving in and out and putting surrounding passersby on edge.
  — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 5 July 2026
• To be sure, if the results disappoint — or investors aren’t satisfied with them — then that could put pressure on a market that’s already on edge.
  — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 22 July 2026
• Lately, though, the highly concentrated, tech-centric momentum trade has put more investors on edge.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
• The high-rise marks a particularly disruptive chapter that Dennis said has her entire street on edge.
  — Charlotte Observer, 23 July 2026
• With just three months until the midterms, the country is on edge as the war with Iran reaches a pivotal moment and political battles rise here at home.
  — NBC news, 2 Aug. 2026
• On Wednesday, jittery neighbors said the near disaster is definitely keeping them on edge.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 8 July 2026
• That fact may have some meat-eaters on edge, but public health leaders have emphasized repeatedly that the parasite is not a threat to the nation’s food safety.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
• The immediate online backlash to comments about Kirk’s death put institutions on edge.
  — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
• The agency's recent focus on the program has left educators including David Thurston on edge.
  — Sequoia Carrillo, NPR, 10 July 2026
• With Wall Street on edge about capex levels, the more management can do to show various paths to monetization, the better.
  — Zev Fima,kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 19 July 2026
• Ceuta, SpainAP — Ceuta over the weekend no longer looked like a city on edge, but residents were still rattled by the events of the week.
  — CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
• Though the frigid headmaster answers their questions about his wife and his own timeline without flair, his demeanor immediately puts Annie on edge.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 23 July 2026
• According to Achieve survey data, 50% of respondents said money issues left them feeling anxious or on edge.
  — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 29 June 2026
• For months, the disability community has been on edge about how moving oversight of IDEA could affect students.
  — Jonaki Mehta, NPR, 9 July 2026
• The press and the public were on edge after Spain failed for the third consecutive time at a World Cup, losing to Morocco on penalties in Qatar.
  — Juan Claudio Matossian, Vanity Fair, 19 July 2026
• Thick insulation foam required for a massive refrigeration operation, solar panels and refrigerants were burned, leaving many residents on edge.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
• With the Supreme Court’s recent decision on TPS, South Florida’s Haitian community is on edge and watching in fear.
  — Elijah Manley, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2026
• First, Stanford, releasing a report on a large-scale study of hiring algorithms that finds concerning patterns in how systems reject candidates and now the Workday case has HR and legal teams on edge.
  — Aparna Rae, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• By processing video streams on edge devices instead of the cloud, organizations reduce latency from seconds to milliseconds, lower bandwidth costs and improve reliability during network disruptions.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 Feb. 2026
• Several African countries have provided planes and buses to bring their citizens home during a surge in anti-immigrant sentiment in South Africa in recent months that has sparked some attacks against foreigners and left parts of the country on edge.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
• Vigilante-style document checks, arrests of at least 350 people and investigations into multiple migrant deaths have left foreign communities on edge, pushing some legal residents to seek repatriation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
• He was held in the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years for a campaign of terror that set universities nationwide on edge.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2026
• Why Most Leaders Are Solving The Wrong Problem When performance breaks down—when a strategy conversation goes sideways, when a key decision gets rushed, when a team starts operating on edge—the default explanations tend to be external.
  — Joy Nissen, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
• This Independence Day will see record-setting fireworks displays for America's 250th anniversary celebration, according to industry experts, but hot, dry conditions across states including California, Colorado and Utah have firefighters on edge.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 30 June 2026