borders

Example Sentences

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The disease has spilled across Congo’s borders into Uganda, prompting the World Health Organization to declare a public health emergency of international concern.

From Salon • May 20, 2026

Nearby were more family artifacts: photographs, keepsakes, fragments of lives divided across borders.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

The upshot: American consumers are set to keep paying more for fuel to stay inside the U.S.’s borders.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

An additional complication is that the outbreak is taking place in a conflict zone, with a quarter of million people displaced from their homes and people moving across porous borders into neighbouring countries.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Gas lamps had been installed at haphazard intervals along the corridor, leaving pockets of gloom whose borders shivered as Belknap and Holmes moved past.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson