border on

Example Sentences

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A whole family from Tabriz crossed the border on Monday afternoon as a light snow fell.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

Product designers are coming up with novel ways to rouse deep sleepers that border on diabolical, including clocks that deliver 300-volt electric shocks and donate snoozers’ money to charity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

If the Dodgers’ spending habits border on satire to you, well, the Onion got there first.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

We had travelled into the dangerous area, about 12km from the Niger border, on Saturday under police escort and with extra security personnel for protection.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

Puerta Penasco is about a hundred miles south of the Arizona border on a strip of land that connects the Baja Peninsula to the rest of Mexico.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel