borderland

Example Sentences

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The auditor said his office’s most recent deep dive began with a tip about Thomas Dozler, an Agriculture Department manager whose duties included patrolling Nebraska’s borderland in the F-150.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Understanding its past as a perennial borderland is essential to knowing how it became the crucible of one of the most bitter disputes in modern history.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023

“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

Mercy lay on some remote borderland between sleep ing and waking.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare