as in bounded
to serve as a border for
that velvet bordered the sleeves on this shirt, until it fell off
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Recent Examples of bordered
It is bordered by single family homes on the north and south side of the property, and sits on a street that is roughly 30 feet wide.
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Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2026
Start in Dominical, a low-key beach town bordered by the Baru River.
—Meghan Palmer, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Mar. 2026
Ecuador, while not a major producer of cocaine, is bordered next to the world's two largest producers, Colombia and Peru.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
Also in Suffield, William Wilson is proposing a 24-lot subdivision called Copper Hill Estates on a 34-acre property bordered by Copperhill, Griffin and Lake roads.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2026
The landlocked Caspian Sea is bordered by several other countries, including Russia.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
That accounts for the near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway bordered by Iran that carries as much as 20 million barrels a day in normal times, as well as the oil industry’s attempts to route around the problem and production increases elsewhere.
—Matt Peterson, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2026
At roughly 17 acres, the park is bordered by Sanford and San Juan avenues, and East First and East Seminole boulevards.
—Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2026
As oversized all-inclusive resorts began to rise from the sands of Cancun and Playa del Carmen up and down the Riviera Maya, the tiny town of Tulum was still almost unheard of, its bare beaches bordered by dense jungle that hid untouched ruins and cenotes brimming with still, turquoise waters.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2026
Start in Dominical, a low-key beach town bordered by the Baru River.
—Meghan Palmer, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Mar. 2026
Ecuador, while not a major producer of cocaine, is bordered next to the world's two largest producers, Colombia and Peru.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
Also in Suffield, William Wilson is proposing a 24-lot subdivision called Copper Hill Estates on a 34-acre property bordered by Copperhill, Griffin and Lake roads.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2026
The landlocked Caspian Sea is bordered by several other countries, including Russia.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
That accounts for the near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway bordered by Iran that carries as much as 20 million barrels a day in normal times, as well as the oil industry’s attempts to route around the problem and production increases elsewhere.
—Matt Peterson, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2026
At roughly 17 acres, the park is bordered by Sanford and San Juan avenues, and East First and East Seminole boulevards.
—Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2026
As oversized all-inclusive resorts began to rise from the sands of Cancun and Playa del Carmen up and down the Riviera Maya, the tiny town of Tulum was still almost unheard of, its bare beaches bordered by dense jungle that hid untouched ruins and cenotes brimming with still, turquoise waters.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bordered
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In some species the nipples are fully exposed or are bounded by mere remnants of a pouch.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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The territory is roughly bounded by Interstate 10 on the south and west and Loop 410 to the north and east.—
Brandon Lingle,
San Antonio Express-News,
31 Mar. 2026
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My friend Thai, whose parents were part of the Weather Underground leadership, remembers his father, Jeff Jones, coming home one day to find their family’s Hoboken apartment surrounded by cops—a fire inspector had spotted his tiny crop of marijuana plants on the fire escape.—
Zayd Ayers Dohrn,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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More than a dozen police and emergency vehicles surrounded a U-Haul truck cordoned off with caution tape outside the stadium.—
Suryatapa Chakraborty,
Dallas Morning News,
28 Mar. 2026
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“Bordered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bordered. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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