borderland

Example Sentences

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The auditor said his office’s most recent deep dive began with a tip about Thomas Dozler, an Agriculture Department manager whose duties included patrolling Nebraska’s borderland in the F-150.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

The Ukrainian borderland has long been a place where cultures merge and interchange.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2024

Much of Southern California finds itself near that bump-and-grind intersection of the North American and Pacific plates, whose borderland we know as the San Andreas fault.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

“You can crack down on these symptoms and the manifestations … that you can see in the borderland areas,” he said, “but they’ll come back unless you really have a sustained effort.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 22, 2023

In the borderland east of Ukrainia in Russia, there was a community of Cossacks who were members of the Greek Orthodox Church.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok