Thesaurus results for BORDERED

bordered

verb

Definition of bordered next

past tense of border

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 This included the whole of California, Nevada, and Utah, southwest Wyoming, western Colorado, Arizona north of the Gila River, and the western portion of what is now New Mexico, bordered by the Rio Grande to the east. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Apr. 2026 The six-story, 470,000-square-foot building, bordered by Eighth, Ninth, G and H streets, had long been derided by Sacramento Superior Court and city leaders as too obsolete, undersized, and unsafe to conduct court business. —

Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 8 Apr. 2026 The state’s isolation, bordered by rivers and the sea and lacking road connections to the rest of Brazil, has helped protect it from the deforestation seen in the southern Amazon. —

Gabriela Sá Pessoa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026 Would there be community support to change zoning to encourage more residential and mixed-use development in the 19 acres up against the 57 Freeway, bordered by Orangethorpe, Placentia and Crowther avenues? —

Heather McRea, Oc Register, 3 Apr. 2026 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. —

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

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The region bounded by the hexagon began to turn a brownish-yellow, losing all trace of its initially blue appearance.

— Big Think, Big Think, 15 Apr. 2026
San Diego’s Civic Center is the four-block, municipal compound bounded by A Street and C Street to the north and south, and First Avenue and Third Avenue to the east and west.

— Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026