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.
  • Form the tart: Pour the cooled filling in the center of the dough round, leaving a 1-inch border.
    The View, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The fiscal year is over — but the Biden border crisis is anything but.
    Mark Green, National Review, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Joe Biden declared Trump's border wall dead on day one.
    Fox News Staff, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • They were located on the edges of the state, near the Arizona, Nevada and Oregon borders.
    Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Ukraine has reclaimed much of the land lost in the opening months and is once again pushing toward its borders.
    WIRED, 10 July 2023
  • The property borders a pawn shop, some auto repair stores and a truck yard.
    Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The move was designed to deter Venezuelan arrivals along the U.S. southern border, which had soared to record levels at the time.
    Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Rafah crossing: Why are people, aid stuck at Egypt-Gaza border?
    Ben Gittleson, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Along the Texas-Mexico border, the use of state troops expands beyond Eagle Pass.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Haley is among those who went to Texas to visit its border with Mexico.
    Sara Burnett, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
  • As Israeli troops aim to take control of the Gaza-Egypt border crossing, officials in Cairo warn that the move would undermine the 1979 peace treaty.
    Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
  • During this time, a phenomenon on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border began to occur.
    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 27 June 2023
  • Respondents also held a poor view of Biden's handling of the economy and the U.S.-Mexico border, in addition to his age.
    Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Trucks already packed sit idle on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing but trickle through at a fraction of prewar levels.
    Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The new tax is known as a carbon border adjustment mechanism, or CBAM.
    Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Sargsyan had read about a tournament in Arlon, a small Belgian city on the Luxembourg border.
    Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • His tenure also saw the signing of the Schengen agreement, which eliminated most border checks across much of the bloc.
    Benjamin Soloway, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The Great Wall of China stretches across China’s northern border with a history that dates back more than 2,000 years.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2023
  • All the while, the suffering of ordinary Sudanese civilians and refugees across the country’s borders is mounting.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • This is true, but movement across borders was integral to Turgenev’s life.
    The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • What's drawing visitors to this sleepy town just over the Mexican border?
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Hidden in the rain shadow of the Himalayas, Mustang borders the Tibetan Plateau and has a distinctive, windswept red-desert landscape.
    Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Fill dough circle with cranberry sauce, leaving a 1½ inch border all around.
    Aleksandra Crapanzano / Photographs By F. Martin Ramin/the Wall Street Journal, Food Styling By Kim Ramin , WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
  • After Hamas breached Israel's border wall, other groups from Gaza seized captives as well.
    Natasha Lebedeva, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2023
  • That design was quickly retired however, and the navy Old English D was brought back, but this time with a thin orange border.
    Jenna Malinowski, Detroit Free Press, 7 July 2023
  • His journey from America's heartland to life in a volatile border town started in 2012 with his rise to prominence as a gun expert and cartel go-to guy.
    Beth Warren, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024
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border

2 of 2 verb
  • Two rivers border the city.
  • Tall trees border the avenue.
  • Their property borders the park.
  • The site would be bordered by Goodyear just to the east.
    Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The Suez Canal runs through Egypt, which borders Israel to the south.
    Jenni Reid, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • This province is about 300 miles southwest of Bangkok and on the Kra Isthmus, a narrow stretch of land that borders Malaysia.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Hamas rules Gaza, the small strip of land bordering Israel and Egypt that has changed hands several times over the past 70 years.
    Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The Zone roughly occupies the blocks bordered by 7th and 15th avenues and Van Buren and Grant streets.
    Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2023
  • The structure, which borders the Park Row Historic District, was built in 1937.
    Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The key of the concept, though, is that each song is sung by an artist or artists not from the country of its origin, but by one bordering it.
    Steve Hochman, SPIN, 28 June 2023
  • In the Gulf of Mexico, which borders Cameron, waters are warming twice as fast as in the global ocean.
    Nidhi Sharma, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • There are no cesspools in Waikiki, but there are some in the watershed of the Ala Wai Canal bordering the district.
    Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
  • 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 province runs down the skinny arm of the country, bordering the Gulf of Thailand on one side and Myanmar on the other.
    Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The city of Auburn, Maine, which borders Lewiston to the west, also advised residents to shelter in place.
    Brian Dakss, Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • At the end of the corridor was a pavilion whose walls were made of reddish-brown wicker bordered by strips of aluminum.
    Ella Riley-Adams, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Each tier on the Amelio Bar Cart is bordered with a metal guard rail to keep your vintage bottles and barware in place while on the go.
    Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 June 2023
  • Sheer golden bluffs plummet over 300 feet down to sea level, where they're bordered by a thin crescent of sand.
    Lila Battis, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Kentucky ranks on the lower end compared to bordering states.
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Many neighbors whose backyards border the site wish to preserve their view.
    Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The attack was reported to be near a lagoon bordering the golf course.
    Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 5 July 2023
  • Rescuers found the woman, whose name has not yet been released, unresponsive at the edge of the lagoon that borders a golf course.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
  • 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 school, which has eight acres of property bordering Rock Creek Park, can serve up to 1,000 campers each summer and usually has a wait list.
    Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
  • These remarkably straight roads tended to be dug two or three meters deep into the landscape and were bordered by tall curbs of piled earth.
    Kiona N. Smith, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Also at issue was the placement of 20 concrete planters that bordered the building along Fifth Avenue and East 56th Street.
    Sam Roberts, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2023
  • In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Dumfries was bordered by the thriving Black community of Batestown.
    Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023

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