How to Use boundary in a Sentence

boundary

noun
  • You need to set boundaries with your children.
  • Those two trees mark the boundary of our property.
  • The river forms the country's western boundary.
  • Did he violate the boundaries of the doctor-patient relationship?
  • One of the first hurdles is the need to set clear boundaries.
    Christina Crawford, Parents, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Many of their recent projects have pushed the boundaries of its scale and use.
    Angela Tafoya, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The plan was to stretch out in new ways and break the usual boundaries of hardcore.
    Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
  • The smoke is so thick, in fact, that Nany can't see the boundary of the field and steps out of bounds, DQing herself.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The lodge, built in 1937, was the sole hotel within the North Rim's park boundaries.
    Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 14 July 2025
  • Still, there are boundaries to how far Xi will go for Putin.
    Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
  • So why not push the boundaries and do something a bit more out there?
    Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Even within a group that pushed boundaries to the edges, Sylvester was the boldest of them all.
    Paula Mejía, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • Your Quest will guide you through the process of setting up your boundary.
    Brad Bourque, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Your Quest 2 will guide you through the process of setting up your boundary.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The storms formed along a cold front and followed the boundary out to sea over the following days.
    Dennis Mersereau, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • And on the walls hung paintings by some of the most cutting-edge, boundary-pushing artists of the time.
    Julia Buckley, CNN, 1 Feb. 2022
  • One simple way to set this boundary is to decline to be weighed at the start of the visit.
    Virginia Sole-Smith, Good Housekeeping, 26 July 2021
  • Over the years, the genre has grown and shifted and pushed boundaries and taken risks and grown and shifted again.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The area is at the boundary of Barrio Logan and East Village.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2023
  • But as waters rise, the boundaries between land and sea shift.
    Longreads, 26 May 2023
  • You're allowed to set a boundary, you're allowed to be clear.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Oct. 2022
  • She’s got a great sense of humor and wanted to keep it witty, cross the boundaries.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 15 Jan. 2024
  • With the feature, if an avatar advances to the edges of your boundary, they'll simply be stopped.
    Rachel Metz, CNN, 4 Feb. 2022
  • If a planet orbits a star in the bulk, the shadows of the planet and star do a little dance on the boundary.
    George Musser, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2022
  • At the same time, Whack tries to maintain boundaries, to keep parts of herself hidden.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Unity will then use rocket power to fly to the boundary of space.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 11 July 2021
  • The boundaries of war and peace were collapsing in Tolstoy’s time as well.
    Casey Cep, New Yorker, 6 June 2025
  • The first lies parallel to the property’s northern boundary; the second is aligned with the sea to the west.
    ELLE Decor, 19 Oct. 2022
  • And when boundaries are tested and the pressure ratchets up, mini retirement can help.
    Terry Ward, CNN Money, 25 July 2025
  • Fearing judgment imprisons a leader to accept boundaries as a rule of self.
    Paige Francis, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025

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