How to Use borderland in a Sentence

borderland

noun

• He describes adolescence as the tumultuous borderlands between childhood and adulthood.
• Rebels from Libya would use the borderlands as a rear base.
  — The Economist, 6 July 2019
• Those of us who live in the borderlands are just lucky enough to live in a part of the world that was once Mexico.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2020
• That day in Paris, the Jardin des Plantes felt like a borderland where worlds were colliding.
  — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2024
• The nexus of the locust breeding is around the Red Sea plains in the borderlands between Sudan and Eritrea.
  — Nicholas Bariyo, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
• The narrow strip is the most heavily armed borderland in the world, with minefields and barbed-wire fences.
  — Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2022
• For now, that point seems to lie in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of a country whose name means borderland.
  — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• Both of them — and both of us — were in that limbo borderland between life and death, knowing and not knowing.
  — Janice Gary, Longreads, 18 Apr. 2018
• Myanmar’s borderlands have been plagued by civil conflicts since the end of the second world war.
  — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
• The young soldier from the borderlands had become a statesman, a role that came less easily to him.
  — Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• In the borderlands of Nigeria, school attendance for girls is as much an act of war against Boko Haram as picking up a gun.
  — Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2018
• But the presence of a military base and the city’s distance from the borderlands can protect Agadez for only so long.
  — Robert Draper, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• The army now claims that peace has been restored in the tribal borderlands and that rebuilding is under way.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2019
• And now in Bateman, for whom the horse, that mythical borderland beast, contains both the hope of a land’s promise and the means to its redemption.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
• The borderlands of the two regional arch-rivals stretch out below it, a wire fence cutting through the valley.
  — CNN, 3 Sep. 2019
• The poem’s a borderland of forms and metaphors with overlapping signage.
  — Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• Strassburger fell in love with the borderlands, with its slew of cultures and agile Spanglish.
  — Jack Herrera, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2024
• The clans of two rival Pashtun tribes dominate the area, feuding like Hatfields and McCoys of the borderlands.
  — Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• This is what the borderlands taste like, that casual blending of cultures and flavors.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
• The borderlands south of Arizona include some of the most profitable, and sought-after, smuggling routes, leading to disputes among the cartels.
  — Rafael Carranza, azcentral, 5 Nov. 2019
• Ducey hasn't said how long the National Guard will remain in Arizona's borderland.
  — Rafael Carranza, azcentral, 13 Apr. 2018
• The borderlands between Cameroon and Nigeria have long been places where the lucky and ruthless can become rich, and wealthy people even wealthier.
  — Scott MacEachern, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2018
• To determine whether the borderland sirens are a new species, Kline needs healthy populations from which to draw samples.
  — Asher Elbein, Washington Post, 18 June 2019
• The church ambush in Hantoukoura follows attacks on places of worship that have killed dozens this year in the country’s borderlands.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• Unlike Arizona, where most of the border region consists of public lands, much of the Texas borderlands are private.
  — Bob Ortega, CNN, 14 May 2018
• Some people in the borderlands still harbor grievances about centuries-old wrongs.
  — Timothy Phillips, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
• The more time Loeb has spent in the scientific borderlands, the more speculative his ideas have become.
  — Seth Fletcher, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• As well as cooking demonstrations, there’s local produce on sale and an ale trail for those looking to drink the best booze from the England-Wales borderlands.
  — Joe Minihane, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
• Saturday’s new attacks come after a steady stream of raids against Nigerian forces in the borderlands with Mali.
  — Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2017
• The bulk of non-Russians in the former Soviet borderlands want less and less to do with their former overlord and certainly do not want to be reabsorbed by it.
  — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024