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

As the surge rose and fell in Afghanistan, the president sent drones and Special Forces units in growing numbers beyond the Pakistan borderlands to Somalia, Yemen and elsewhere in what were in effect new wars.

From Washington Post

It evokes a borderlands identity where spirituality and folk music have blended for centuries.

From Seattle Times