How to Use border in a Sentence

border

1 of 2 noun

• They live just beyond the western border of the park.
• He planted pansies in the border.
• The quilt is quite plain except for its colorful border.
• He grew up in Malaysia, near the Indonesian border.
• Form the tart: Pour the cooled filling in the center of the dough round, leaving a 1-inch border.
  — The View, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2023
• The fiscal year is over — but the Biden border crisis is anything but.
  — Mark Green, National Review, 27 Oct. 2023
• Joe Biden declared Trump's border wall dead on day one.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2023
• They were located on the edges of the state, near the Arizona, Nevada and Oregon borders.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• Ukraine has reclaimed much of the land lost in the opening months and is once again pushing toward its borders.
  — WIRED, 10 July 2023
• The property borders a pawn shop, some auto repair stores and a truck yard.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2024
• The move was designed to deter Venezuelan arrivals along the U.S. southern border, which had soared to record levels at the time.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2023
• Rafah crossing: Why are people, aid stuck at Egypt-Gaza border?
  — Ben Gittleson, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2023
• Along the Texas-Mexico border, the use of state troops expands beyond Eagle Pass.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2024
• Haley is among those who went to Texas to visit its border with Mexico.
  — Sara Burnett, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
• As Israeli troops aim to take control of the Gaza-Egypt border crossing, officials in Cairo warn that the move would undermine the 1979 peace treaty.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
• During this time, a phenomenon on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border began to occur.
  — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 27 June 2023
• Respondents also held a poor view of Biden's handling of the economy and the U.S.-Mexico border, in addition to his age.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
• Trucks already packed sit idle on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing but trickle through at a fraction of prewar levels.
  — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• The new tax is known as a carbon border adjustment mechanism, or CBAM.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• Sargsyan had read about a tournament in Arlon, a small Belgian city on the Luxembourg border.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• His tenure also saw the signing of the Schengen agreement, which eliminated most border checks across much of the bloc.
  — Benjamin Soloway, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
• The Great Wall of China stretches across China’s northern border with a history that dates back more than 2,000 years.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2023
• All the while, the suffering of ordinary Sudanese civilians and refugees across the country’s borders is mounting.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• This is true, but movement across borders was integral to Turgenev’s life.
  — The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• What's drawing visitors to this sleepy town just over the Mexican border?
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2024
• Hidden in the rain shadow of the Himalayas, Mustang borders the Tibetan Plateau and has a distinctive, windswept red-desert landscape.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2023
• Fill dough circle with cranberry sauce, leaving a 1½ inch border all around.
  — Aleksandra Crapanzano / Photographs By F. Martin Ramin/the Wall Street Journal, Food Styling By Kim Ramin , WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
• After Hamas breached Israel's border wall, other groups from Gaza seized captives as well.
  — Natasha Lebedeva, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2023
• That design was quickly retired however, and the navy Old English D was brought back, but this time with a thin orange border.
  — Jenna Malinowski, Detroit Free Press, 7 July 2023
• His journey from America's heartland to life in a volatile border town started in 2012 with his rise to prominence as a gun expert and cartel go-to guy.
  — Beth Warren, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024

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border

2 of 2 verb

• Two rivers border the city.
• Tall trees border the avenue.
• Their property borders the park.
• The site would be bordered by Goodyear just to the east.
  — Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2024
• The Suez Canal runs through Egypt, which borders Israel to the south.
  — Jenni Reid, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023
• The site borders a row of homes just across Clinton Avenue to the west.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2024
• The course is sprawling and lush, with winding hills and a lake that snakes through the landscape, which is bordered by dense trees.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2023
• It’s bound in black cloth, its images are bordered by it and filled with it, dense and gloomy, with just a few glimmers of white.
  — Gabriel Winslow-Yost, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
• This province is about 300 miles southwest of Bangkok and on the Kra Isthmus, a narrow stretch of land that borders Malaysia.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024
• Hamas rules Gaza, the small strip of land bordering Israel and Egypt that has changed hands several times over the past 70 years.
  — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
• The Zone roughly occupies the blocks bordered by 7th and 15th avenues and Van Buren and Grant streets.
  — Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2023
• The structure, which borders the Park Row Historic District, was built in 1937.
  — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
• The key of the concept, though, is that each song is sung by an artist or artists not from the country of its origin, but by one bordering it.
  — Steve Hochman, SPIN, 28 June 2023
• In the Gulf of Mexico, which borders Cameron, waters are warming twice as fast as in the global ocean.
  — Nidhi Sharma, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2024
• There are no cesspools in Waikiki, but there are some in the watershed of the Ala Wai Canal bordering the district.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
• The map inside & out is a mix of missteps & crossroads bordering cliffs & edges.
  — Terrance Hayes, The New York Review of Books, 29 June 2023
• The province runs down the skinny arm of the country, bordering the Gulf of Thailand on one side and Myanmar on the other.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2024
• The city of Auburn, Maine, which borders Lewiston to the west, also advised residents to shelter in place.
  — Brian Dakss, Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2023
• At the end of the corridor was a pavilion whose walls were made of reddish-brown wicker bordered by strips of aluminum.
  — Ella Riley-Adams, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• Each tier on the Amelio Bar Cart is bordered with a metal guard rail to keep your vintage bottles and barware in place while on the go.
  — Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 June 2023
• Sheer golden bluffs plummet over 300 feet down to sea level, where they're bordered by a thin crescent of sand.
  — Lila Battis, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023
• Kentucky ranks on the lower end compared to bordering states.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
• Many neighbors whose backyards border the site wish to preserve their view.
  — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
• The attack was reported to be near a lagoon bordering the golf course.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 5 July 2023
• Rescuers found the woman, whose name has not yet been released, unresponsive at the edge of the lagoon that borders a golf course.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
• Where small farms bordered by brushy fence rows and hedge rows once stood, there are now large farms with little cover visible.
  — Brent Frazee, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• The school, which has eight acres of property bordering Rock Creek Park, can serve up to 1,000 campers each summer and usually has a wait list.
  — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
• These remarkably straight roads tended to be dug two or three meters deep into the landscape and were bordered by tall curbs of piled earth.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2024
• Also at issue was the placement of 20 concrete planters that bordered the building along Fifth Avenue and East 56th Street.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2023
• In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Dumfries was bordered by the thriving Black community of Batestown.
  — Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024