How to Use borderland in a Sentence

borderland

noun
  • He describes adolescence as the tumultuous borderlands between childhood and adulthood.
  • Drought hangs like a dark, rainless cloud over the borderlands.
    — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Smoke from both is drifting south, causing hazy skies across the borderland.
    — Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
  • Today, there's a tale of two borderlands in the Himalayas.
    — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Those of us who live in the borderlands are just lucky enough to live in a part of the world that was once Mexico.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Myanmar’s borderlands have been plagued by civil conflicts since the end of the second world war.
    — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Both of them — and both of us — were in that limbo borderland between life and death, knowing and not knowing.
    — Janice Gary, Longreads, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The young soldier from the borderlands had become a statesman, a role that came less easily to him.
    — Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • The army now claims that peace has been restored in the tribal borderlands and that rebuilding is under way.
    — The Economist, 20 July 2019
  • Some people in the borderlands still harbor grievances about centuries-old wrongs.
    — Timothy Phillips, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Alaskans think of themselves as occupying an edge, not a borderland.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
  • The poem’s a borderland of forms and metaphors with overlapping signage.
    — Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • This is what the borderlands taste like, that casual blending of cultures and flavors.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • This is what the borderlands taste like, that casual blending of cultures and flavors.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
  • That day in Paris, the Jardin des Plantes felt like a borderland where worlds were colliding.
    — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The borderlands of the two regional arch-rivals stretch out below it, a wire fence cutting through the valley.
    — CNN, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Sarah Henry There’s a new jaguar on the scene in Arizona’s borderlands.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Strassburger fell in love with the borderlands, with its slew of cultures and agile Spanglish.
    — Jack Herrera, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2024
  • For now, that point seems to lie in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of a country whose name means borderland.
    — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Grit has always been a necessary quality for making it as a rancher in the borderlands.
    — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • But the presence of a military base and the city’s distance from the borderlands can protect Agadez for only so long.
    — Robert Draper, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • Across the borderland, ranchers are grappling with a similar predicament.
    — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • To determine whether the borderland sirens are a new species, Kline needs healthy populations from which to draw samples.
    — Asher Elbein, Washington Post, 18 June 2019
  • Black-and-white pictures of borderland landmarks and notable residents past and present decorate the walls.
    — Bon Appétit, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Humane Borders, which provides support for the camp near Sasabe, does water drops across the borderlands.
    — Rafael Carranza, ProPublica, 3 Feb. 2025
  • In the heyday of the 1980s, rainy seasons brought over 20 inches to the borderlands.
    — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The more time Loeb has spent in the scientific borderlands, the more speculative his ideas have become.
    — Seth Fletcher, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • In the borderlands of Nigeria, school attendance for girls is as much an act of war against Boko Haram as picking up a gun.
    — Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2018
  • The church ambush in Hantoukoura follows attacks on places of worship that have killed dozens this year in the country’s borderlands.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Ducey hasn't said how long the National Guard will remain in Arizona's borderland.
    — Rafael Carranza, azcentral, 13 Apr. 2018

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