borderland

Example Sentences

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The base helped the U.S. put pressure on the extremists in a broad stretch of desert near Syria’s borderlands with Jordan and Iraq.

From The Wall Street Journal

The crime writer Don Winslow has repeatedly followed his characters into the wild borderland between law and crime.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the early 20th century, irrigation reforms turned the Mexican borderlands into rich terrain for cotton growing, attracting migrant laborers from all over the country.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Conquering the North” is a sprawling book about wars, treaties, empires and ethnic conflict along China’s northern borderlands.

From The Wall Street Journal

Border Patrol, on the other hand, patrols the borderlands for anyone they encounter and suspect of entering illegally.

From Los Angeles Times