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

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