How to Use borough in a Sentence

borough

noun
  • The city is made up of five boroughs.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • No study has yet been made of the other boroughs.
    — Roberta Brandes Gratz, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The program launched on five bus lines in each of the five boroughs.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Each borough has its own Fan Zone.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 10 June 2026
  • The new garden brings that total in the borough to nine.
    — Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • According to one count, more than half were in the five boroughs.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Spitting for her home borough, Brooke closed out the night with fire.
    — Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Across all five boroughs, finding a bathroom can prove to be a hard task.
    — Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 22 June 2026
  • Queens is a borough of New York City.
    — Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Like the eastern borough, the drink is gray from the outside but has tasty depths.
    — Kate Bettes, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2024
  • Snow melters will also be deployed to each borough.
    — Aziza Shuler, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • There were also other protests planned around the boroughs.
    — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • So this fox crossed an ocean to arrive in a borough where its own species already roams free.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Many parts of their borough are without power.
    — Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 8 June 2026
  • The city’s borough presidents have called for it.
    — Melanie La Rocca, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • This is where hundreds of homeless men from all five boroughs show up in search of a place to sleep.
    — Niki Donohue, New York Daily News, 3 May 2026
  • Yet the postwar suburbs drained the borough.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • New York’s star borough appears to have lost a little of its shine.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 June 2022
  • The borough was pummeled with up to two feet of snow in the historic blizzard.
    — Aziza Shuler, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Taxpayers footed much of the bill for the trip that took him far from the five boroughs.
    — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • This could be either for the whole city or only certain boroughs.
    — Cheryl Winokur Munk, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The ice plant was built when the borough was booming, at the turn of the last century.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Even at that rate, with one hot tub in each borough, making a dent in the leftover snow will take time.
    — Doug Williams, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • It was expanded to 56 zip codes across the five boroughs.
    — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Her design still leaves its imprint on the borough today.
    — Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Each borough had its night, its pride, its sonic identity.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 19 Mar. 2026
  • For more than 100 years, Collingswood has been a dry borough, but that could change.
    — Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • And this team fulfilled that hope with grit, resilience and heart — just like the five boroughs itself.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 16 June 2026
  • The borough is hoping for a rebound later in the summer and fall.
    — Noah Kirsch, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • The rise is surprising in part because the cost of living in the borough has soared.
    — Stefanos Chen, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023

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