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How to use bordering in a sentence

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Both Democratic and Republican senators treated him with impatience bordering on contempt.
Being embroiled in a full-blooded war was not what he'd imagined his tour of the bordering principalities would entail.
Such incendiary language, bordering on incitement to mutiny, has become almost routine in Republican quarters.
Since that time most of the countries bordering the Mediterranean have made spearfishing with the aid of aqualungs illegal.
Females hunted for araneid spiders among the dense vegetation bordering the sand in which they nested.
Columns lined the front of the house, bordering full-length windows with elegant arched tops.
There are so many in our price range we soon experienced the old familiar feeling of bewilderment bordering on mania.
Or maybe he would prefer something along the lines of suicidal confessions of a mind bordering on death and raving lunacy.
In some fractures bordering the clay seams, azurite and malachite occur as masses of alternating, crudely parallel bands.
Each of these frontons is again distinguished by bordering ornamental turrets on its either flanks, which are carried beyond the parapets.
The flycatcher was seen lurking in the low brush bordering a secluded pond.
He also loved bawdy songs and ancient poetry bordering on the pornographic.
Outside, the crowds had now thronged Parliament Square and banked up alongside the prime real estate bordering the abbey itself.
The dance studio, dedicated to Mr. Baryshnikov, is a large room with ample floor space bordering two sides of the dance floor.
I don't know what the agenda of the Herald editors is exactly, but that poll they commissioned was rubbish, bordering on push-polling.
To throw away a two-goal advantage once in a derby is unfortunate, twice though is careless, bordering on inexcusable.
His music was characterized by great individuality, sometimes bordering on the sensational.
Hawke persisted in it, despite a high level of incredulity, bordering on ridicule, in the media.
Shorthand may serve useful purposes, but when combined with short attention spans, it's foolishness bordering on fraud.
Was the students' act bordering on something like savagery when they took advantage of the workers' penurious state?
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Examples from Classical Literature
In fact he wrote that he thought it all wrong, deceitful, bordering on the dishonest.
A gorgeous bordering of a species of ice plant with splendid magenta blooms was especially effective.
But this refers only to the section of Finland bordering on the Baltic Sea.
A khanate situated in the valley of the lower Oxus, bordering Bokhara on the southeast.
He was born in Kherson, a province bordering on the Black Sea, about forty-five years ago.
The hills bordering upon the lake are said to abound with this sort of sulphureous stone.
Vivian came quickly down the garden path between the bordering beds of sweet alyssum and mignonette.
This was mostly placed out of sight between the stones bordering the brooklet, or hung on a thorn that grew on the chapel wall.
It is characterized by very beautiful scenery bordering the great classic sea, and lying at the base of the Maritime Alps.
Joy bordering on madness possessed the Madrilenean ring when Montes handled the muleta.
But certain it is, a great change, bordering on revolution, was portending.
The area bordering the ditch had been left wild, a barrier of vines, brush, untended trees.
He put spurs to his horse and galloped to the spot where the ninety-second were lying behind a ditch bordering the road.
The Pacific basin is deep close to the land bordering it, thus restricting the seaward extension of the continental shelf.
These are Delaware, Coshocton, and Pickaway, and the latter is one of the bordering counties.
In the swamps bordering the river grew quantities of a variety of sago palm called by the natives Songo.
There were pink mallows that seemed as if they must have been cut from the bushes bordering Santa Monica road.
The dovekie builds a simple nest usually in the crevices of rocky cliffs bordering the sea coast.
These percentages are in close agreement with those found for the ecologically similar area bordering Lake Tulare.
Its aerie is about two yards wide, and is generally situated in the forests bordering on the sea or great lakes.
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