borderland

Example Sentences

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Crawford takes readers to ancient Greece, to the remote borderlands between city-states such as Athens and Boeotia, Sparta and Argos.

From Washington Post

“I don’t think it’s in our interest to be getting into a proxy war with China, getting involved over things like the borderlands or over Crimea,” DeSantis said on Fox News.

From Washington Post

And when DeSantis talks about “the borderlands” I guess he means the eastern Donbas region, which Putin has “annexed” but which lies within Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders.

From Washington Post

Pesto-sized quotas of fresh basil are often hard to come by at the grocery store near my house in the New Mexican borderlands.

From Salon

Xi launched unprecedented, sweeping security crackdowns that brought the borderlands under control.

From Reuters