bordering
Example Sentences
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MCALLEN, Texas — Vanessa Ovalle has a “frontline view” of Texas schools as a single mom and a speech pathologist at a local school in McAllen, a city in the Rio Grande Valley bordering Mexico.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
Communities across all states bordering Wyoming face darkness, breathing difficulties and roofs collapsing under accumulated ash.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Boundaries are extremely tricky to maintain with people who are insistent and/or bordering on pushy.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
He has won six out of the seven counties bordering the lake in all of his three presidential runs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
When we reached the square, I noticed that there was a white truck of an odd, square shape parked on the street bordering it, perhaps a block away.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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