borderland
Example Sentences
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The crime writer Don Winslow has repeatedly followed his characters into the wild borderland between law and crime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Leaving his native country meant embarking on a life of exile, not to mention a risky escape on foot across the mountainous borderland.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 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
Recently, the site and its mysteries have been drawing record numbers of visitors to this place near the provincial capital of Sanliurfa in the borderland with Syria — 850,000 in 2022.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
Mercy lay on some remote borderland between sleep ing and waking.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
