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

Tucked in this borderland between states sits a meadow bluff just outside the town of Stevenson, Skamania County.

From Seattle Times

The M23 rebel group began a major offensive in Congo's eastern borderlands with Rwanda at the end of March, its most sustained since it captured vast swathes of territory a decade ago.

From Reuters