How to Use borough in a Sentence

borough

noun
  • Through an expanse of floor-to-ceiling glass windows, the borough unfurls below.
    Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 29 Apr. 2022
  • That dated back to when Adams served as the Brooklyn city borough president.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The borough was responsible for so much in hip-hop culture, and Big represented so much of that in one body.
    Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • Westminster is the borough where Johnson voted, with his dog, Dilyn, on leash.
    Washington Post, 6 May 2022
  • The borough government recently installed new electric poles, which are already starting to lean.
    Lois Parshley, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2022
  • Uh, one of the other finalists, Larry hook, a superintendent from the spring borough area got three votes.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 11 May 2022
  • Mathiasson lives in Ambler, along the Kobuk River on the other side of the borough.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 19 May 2022
  • Sheff G is another Brooklyn drill architect who sees something magical in his borough.
    Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2022
  • Additionally, there was strong pricing metric growth across the city, ranging from around 10-20% year over year depending on the borough.
    Shimon Shkury, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • On his birthday, the celebration will travel B.I.G.’s home borough of Brooklyn.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 17 May 2022
  • So far this year, 16 children under the age of 17 have been shot in the Bronx, said Darcel Clark, the borough's district attorney.
    Liam Reilly and Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 21 May 2022
  • The Bronx was once the most Democratic borough in the city.
    Michelle L. Price, Fortune, 24 May 2024
  • The ice plant was built when the borough was booming, at the turn of the last century.
    Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Tottenham is the name of the town in the north borough of London.
    Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Twenty-seven were born in the state of New York, and most of those in the five boroughs.
    Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Like the eastern borough, the drink is gray from the outside but has tasty depths.
    Kate Bettes, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2024
  • In New York City, that mulch is supplied to parks around the five boroughs, Ulfelder said.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • So much in the borough was new and splendid and gleaming.
    Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • Spitting for her home borough, Brooke closed out the night with fire.
    Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The rise is surprising in part because the cost of living in the borough has soared.
    Stefanos Chen, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • At the same time, the city seems closer as far as going out to other boroughs with Uber.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Those incidents all took place in the Bronx, the city’s poorest borough.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Jersey City is sometimes called the sixth borough of New York City.
    New York Times, 28 July 2022
  • The high school is near the borough of Bessemer close to the Ohio state line, and roughly a 55-mile drive northwest of Pittsburgh.
    Michelle Watson, CNN, 25 Aug. 2022
  • New York’s star borough appears to have lost a little of its shine.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 June 2022
  • In New York, the most buyer-friendly borough, the Bronx, still ranked just 58th overall.
    Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The borough of Queens is emblazoned on what appears to be a New York City street sign.
    Tiffany Cusaac-Smith, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2022
  • At a kiosk a block over, outside the Metro Diner, a call went in to Mark Levine, the borough president.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 28 May 2022
  • The Bronx accent is courtesy of his parents, both natives of the borough.
    Paul Starobin, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Catch up quick: Adams was indicted on five counts last month after a federal probe into his mayoral campaign and time as the Brooklyn borough president.
    Avery Lotz, Axios, 2 Oct. 2024

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