borderland

Example Sentences

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Crawford takes readers to ancient Greece, to the remote borderlands between city-states such as Athens and Boeotia, Sparta and Argos.

From Washington Post

“I don’t think it’s in our interest to be getting into a proxy war with China, getting involved over things like the borderlands or over Crimea,” DeSantis said on Fox News.

From Washington Post

And when DeSantis talks about “the borderlands” I guess he means the eastern Donbas region, which Putin has “annexed” but which lies within Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders.

From Washington Post

Eastern Congo’s borderlands with Uganda and Rwanda have been plagued by violence since regional wars around the turn of the century in which millions of people died, mostly from hunger and disease.

From Reuters

Homeland Security is also placing more rescue beacons throughout the remote Texas borderlands, so migrants who lost cell phones or ran out of power on a days-long hike can still summon help.

From Washington Times