borders

Example Sentences

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As part of the response, the US is stationing dogs capable of sniffing out screwworms at the borders.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Tracing deportees as they are shuffled across borders in secret has been a recurring issue, lawyers have told AFP.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

The second was a winning streak that now borders on the supernatural: The Knicks have simply forgotten how to lose.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Must a transportation worker like Brock himself cross state borders or directly interact with a vehicle that crosses state lines to be “engaged in interstate commerce” and thus exempt from arbitration?

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

Foreign bootlegging of minerals is so thorough that our neighbor the French Congo, without a single diamond mine in its borders, is the world’s fifth-largest exporter of diamonds.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver