borderland

Example Sentences

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Her borderland upbringing in El Paso has also shaped her Spanglish lyrics.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

The crime writer Don Winslow has repeatedly followed his characters into the wild borderland between law and crime.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

“You can crack down on these symptoms and the manifestations … that you can see in the borderland areas,” he said, “but they’ll come back unless you really have a sustained effort.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 22, 2023

Recently, the site and its mysteries have been drawing record numbers of visitors to this place near the provincial capital of Sanliurfa in the borderland with Syria — 850,000 in 2022.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2023

He knew how to navigate their dark borderland.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan