How to Use on/at the threshold in a Sentence

on/at the threshold

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• Who might be waiting on the threshold of his father’s church when the song is over?
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
• The door now seems open to them, and the Philippous aren’t ones to linger on the threshold.
  — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
• Iran is on the threshold of becoming the world’s tenth atomic power.
  — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2025
• There’s a caveat on the threshold of voter approval for tax proposals.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2024
• Oregon salmon anglers are on the threshold of a fishing tsunami.
  — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 11 June 2022
• My son was now on the threshold of college, my daughter a recent graduate.
  — Martha McPhee, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• Posey, who got a nine-year deal, was 26 and on the threshold of a third World Series title.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2021
• The computing world stands on the threshold of something equal parts exciting and alarming.
  — Grégoire Ribordy, Forbes, 24 May 2021
• Essentially, because many of them look to be on the threshold of bankruptcy.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Dec. 2022
• Place a piece of paper on the threshold (the bottom trim in the doorway), close the door and see whether the paper pulls out easily.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
• At the first dedication, a young mother stood on the threshold of her new home, clutching her baby and wiping away tears.
  — Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2025
• The video shows Lynch collapsing on the threshold and crawling a few feet before being subdued.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022
• Jean-Baptiste’s face in that moment is that of someone right on the threshold of a revelation.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
• The season, overall, seems to want to leave the Berzattos on the threshold of that sort of resolution.
  — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 June 2025
• Mark has been swept away on a journey in his mind, potentially on the threshold of death after Reghabi flooded his chip.
  — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
• North Korea has built and tested nuclear weapons, and Iran is on the threshold of being able to build them.
  — Gregory L. Schulte, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2010
• That's right on the threshold of conscious perception, almost 'subliminal' but not quite.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2012
• Much could ride on a raft of smaller parties that are on the threshold of reaching the minimum of 5 percent of the vote needed to enter parliament.
  — Ladka Bauerova, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2023
• Artisan Gateway shows the Chinese box office on the threshold of a $7 billion total for the year.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Nov. 2023
• The definition of a supermoon can vary, though, depending on the threshold used to determine if a full moon is close enough to Earth to qualify.
  — NBC News, 23 June 2021
• The Islamic Republic, in other words, is on the threshold of becoming the world’s tenth atomic power.
  — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2025
• On Thursday afternoon, the door to the apartment where the shooting unfolded had one piece of red evidence tape attached and blood smeared on the threshold at the bottom.
  — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2025
• Sonoma County is right at the threshold, but every other Bay Area county has a higher vaccination rate than the statewide rate.
  — Harriet Blair Rowan, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
• Sophie has recently turned eleven, and Corio poises her, with startling assurance, on the threshold between unknowing and knowing.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2022
• Still, Kuperberg says, the results show physicists are on the threshold of using imperfect physical qubits to make much better logical ones.
  — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 22 Feb. 2023
• The marble trefoil detail on the threshold of the shower evokes French-Moroccan architecture.
  — Blue Carreon, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
• The characters in these songs are disconnected and desperate, often balanced on the threshold of violence as a last, or sometimes only, resort.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 15 Aug. 2022
• The American Youth Symphony was on the threshold of its 60th anniversary.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
• The next morning, a neighbor found Gilpin's and her husband Rodney's bodies at the threshold of their Jefferson City apartment.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024
• Several attendees wore buttons calling for a ceasefire in the region, and protesters demanding the same clashed with police on the threshold of the Oscars' red carpet.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2024