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.
• Had there been a border wall in the backdrop?
  — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 28 Feb. 2026
• What’s more, border bears will be in even greater peril.
  — Ganesh Marín, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
• They can be laid flat or half-buried to form a solid border edge.
  — Peg Aloi, The Spruce, 5 Feb. 2026
• Space plants three feet apart for massing in borders and beds or to plant a low hedge.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2026
• Both are a short ride over the Illinois border.
  — Brad Weisenstein, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
• No one should be able to evade justice by crossing a border.
  — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2025
• This is not the very last stretch of border fencing to be erected.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
• Plant as a hedge or to provide contrast in mixed borders.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 27 May 2026
• What to know about the 'smart wall' at the Arizona border.
  — Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 15 Oct. 2025
• But Texas’ reforms stopped at its borders.
  — Kavitha Surana, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
• Both sides had claimed to destroy border posts in that fighting.
  — Reuters, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
• In this way, one act of aid can prompt another, and spread across borders.
  — Jb Bae, The Conversation, 5 May 2026
• Panahi asks him where the actual border is.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
• Use it as an accent, in a border, or in a container.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 29 Apr. 2026
• The new high-tech tool Trump is using to secure our border.
  — FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
• Both sides of the new border want to claim both Goethe — and — Mann as their own.
  — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 14 May 2026
• Iraq has beefed up patrols along its border with Syria.
  — Arkansas Online, 23 Jan. 2026
• But this border gore has been ongoing for a couple decades.
  — Jason Kirk, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
• The city is just 20 miles from the Russian border.
  — Joanna Kakissis, NPR, 27 Feb. 2026
• The cost of moving goods across borders is no longer about freight and tariffs only.
  — Andreas Schweitzer, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
• Yet the defining challenges of our era do not respect borders.
  — Alan H.h. Fleischmann, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
• The spread of the flag also reflects a broader shift in how protest ideas move across borders.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025
• Those officials on that remote border didn’t even have a phone to get a heads-up.
  — Peter Leyden, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
• His car broke down near the Florida border.
  — Christopher Spata, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2026
• Iran's southern border extends along the length of the Gulf.
  — Kate Perez, USA Today, 12 Mar. 2026
• These plants are easy to grow, and their tall stems fit perfectly in the back of a border garden.
  — Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2026

border

2 of 2 verb

• Two rivers border the city.
• Tall trees border the avenue.
• Their property borders the park.
• Right by the beach, they are bordered by lush jungle.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
• Dirt paths bordered rose gardens that framed turquoise pools.
  — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2026
• The gate of our house opened to a courtyard, bordered by three small rooms and a kitchen.
  — Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
• Iran borders it to the north, and 20% of the world's oil goes through it.
  — Chilekasi Adele, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
• Maps show the address where he was found is bordered by woods on two sides, and farm land at the back.
  — Mark Price april 30, Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2026
• Many neighbors whose backyards border the site wish to preserve their view.
  — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
• It is bordered by a playground, tended by a man who cuts back the grass borders with a scythe.
  — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 June 2026
• 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 city is at the edge of the Phoenix metro area, bordered by rolling mountains and sweeping deserts.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2025
• The beach stretches as far as the eye can see, bordered by flowing grassy dunes, while massive cliffs hug its edges.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2026
• This will keep it from piling up too much on that portion of the grass bordering your driveway.
  — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 28 Jan. 2026
• The texture is thick and comfy, and the blanket is bordered with simple fringe twists.
  — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2025
• 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
• The steps of the Met tonight resemble a mossy stone staircase bordered by lush hedge walls.
  — Dalila Muata, NBC news, 5 May 2026
• Both areas border Stoney Run Park.
  — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 10 June 2026
• 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 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
• Her ranch borders the property.
  — Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 9 Jan. 2026
• The nonanswers have left Mueller torn about whether to sell his acreage, which borders the nuclear site.
  — Miranda Dunlap, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
• In the lounge room, beige sofas bordered a deep-red Oriental rug worn smooth in places by years of use.
  — Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
• Kentucky ranks on the lower end compared to bordering states.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
• 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 attack was reported to be near a lagoon bordering the golf course.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 5 July 2023
• This one crossed a bordering town, Killingworth, and again, something stirred.
  — Andrew Callahan, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2026
• Windows will be replaced with doors, and the seating area will be bordered by a cobblestone wall.
  — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2026
• The Suez Canal runs through Egypt, which borders Israel to the south.
  — Jenni Reid, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023
• The town borders Maine and Vermont as well as Canada.
  — ABC News, 24 Feb. 2026