How to Use borough in a Sentence

borough

noun

• The Bronx was once the most Democratic borough in the city.
  — Michelle L. Price, Fortune, 24 May 2024
• The ice plant was built when the borough was booming, at the turn of the last century.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• Tottenham is the name of the town in the north borough of London.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2022
• Twenty-seven were born in the state of New York, and most of those in the five boroughs.
  — Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• Like the eastern borough, the drink is gray from the outside but has tasty depths.
  — Kate Bettes, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2024
• In New York City, that mulch is supplied to parks around the five boroughs, Ulfelder said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2023
• So much in the borough was new and splendid and gleaming.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• Spitting for her home borough, Brooke closed out the night with fire.
  — Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
• The rise is surprising in part because the cost of living in the borough has soared.
  — Stefanos Chen, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• At the same time, the city seems closer as far as going out to other boroughs with Uber.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2024
• Those incidents all took place in the Bronx, the city’s poorest borough.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 9 Aug. 2023
• Jersey City is sometimes called the sixth borough of New York City.
  — New York Times, 28 July 2022
• The high school is near the borough of Bessemer close to the Ohio state line, and roughly a 55-mile drive northwest of Pittsburgh.
  — Michelle Watson, CNN, 25 Aug. 2022
• New York’s star borough appears to have lost a little of its shine.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 June 2022
• In New York, the most buyer-friendly borough, the Bronx, still ranked just 58th overall.
  — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• The borough of Queens is emblazoned on what appears to be a New York City street sign.
  — Tiffany Cusaac-Smith, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2022
• At a kiosk a block over, outside the Metro Diner, a call went in to Mark Levine, the borough president.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 28 May 2022
• The Bronx accent is courtesy of his parents, both natives of the borough.
  — Paul Starobin, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022
• Like many children in this borough of New York City, her son has asthma.
  — Javacia Harris Bowser, Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2023
• The band announced the album with the help of Fallon, who joined them in the London borough of Hackney about the new music last month.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
• This marks the second kids concept to open and is the third Kith store in Brooklyn, the New York borough where the company got its start.
  — Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 13 June 2024
• The 23-year-old Memphis rapper takes a tour of the Bronx with the borough’s biggest current star, Cardi B.
  — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2022
• Loehmann was sworn in Tuesday in Tioga, a borough of 700 people near Williamsport.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 7 July 2022
• New York has set up more than 200 shelters across the five boroughs, and some residents have protested the sites.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 20 Sep. 2023
• Renters in search of better deals may have turned to outer boroughs, pushing up costs there.
  — Jennifer Epstein, Bloomberg.com, 13 Apr. 2023
• That also opened up Sitze Road to residents, the borough said.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2022
• My plan was to interview him over drinks in the borough of Staten Island.
  — Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2022
• News comes as Kimmel prepares to return to Brooklyn next week for the show’s sixth visit to the borough.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 Sep. 2022
• As fans began having to dodge the electric trolleys which had become one of the primary modes of transport in the borough, the team was nicknamed the Trolley Dodgers, and later, simply, the Dodgers.
  — Jamie Barton, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
• She has been connected to Adams since his days as Brooklyn borough president, even accompanying him on trips to China.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024