the border
noun
: a specific border (as between countries)
They've lived in southern Texas for years, but have never been south of the border.
Examples of the border in a Sentence
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Her 17-year-old son, Ajmal, drowned in the Drina, a river marking the border between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia, on July 31, 2022.
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Ingrid Gercama, NPR, 27 Apr. 2024
Legislation recently introduced by Rep. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, would require top border officials to make sense of how emerging technology could secure the border.
—Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2024
Since the beginning of the recent conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the the Sudanese Armed Forces, which began in March 2023, over 600,000 new refugees have crossed the border from Darfur in Sudan, into Chad.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2024
The men return fire, then escape across the border.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
The players are one section, and a pretty straightforward piece of the puzzle, much like the border.
—Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2024
California For Subscribers California housing crisis so bad once-modest towns have become ‘million-dollar cities’
April 15, 2024
Herlong, located along the border with Nevada, 90 miles north of Lake Tahoe, is another town with a low median home value.
—Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2024
One of the plants, with 10,000 employees, was located only a few hundred yards from the border for easy access to the U.S. marketplace.
—Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2024
With Republicans demanding new border security provisions as part of any ultimate agreement, a bipartisan bloc of senators engaged in prolonged talks that in February produced a proposal that included significant Democratic concessions aimed at stopping the flow across the border.
—Carl Hulse, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2024
Ingrid Gercama, NPR, 27 Apr. 2024
Legislation recently introduced by Rep. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, would require top border officials to make sense of how emerging technology could secure the border.
—Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2024
Since the beginning of the recent conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the the Sudanese Armed Forces, which began in March 2023, over 600,000 new refugees have crossed the border from Darfur in Sudan, into Chad.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2024
The men return fire, then escape across the border.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
The players are one section, and a pretty straightforward piece of the puzzle, much like the border.
—Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2024
California For Subscribers California housing crisis so bad once-modest towns have become ‘million-dollar cities’
April 15, 2024
Herlong, located along the border with Nevada, 90 miles north of Lake Tahoe, is another town with a low median home value.
—Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2024
One of the plants, with 10,000 employees, was located only a few hundred yards from the border for easy access to the U.S. marketplace.
—Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2024
With Republicans demanding new border security provisions as part of any ultimate agreement, a bipartisan bloc of senators engaged in prolonged talks that in February produced a proposal that included significant Democratic concessions aimed at stopping the flow across the border.
—Carl Hulse, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2024
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“The border.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20border. Accessed 2 May. 2024.
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