How to Use borough in a Sentence

borough

noun

• Buyers need not head to the farthest reaches of the borough, either.
  — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2022
• The borough was awarded the games in April 2021, Quade said.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2022
• The borough presidents have been speaking for about a month, Mr. Fosella said.
  — New York Times, 12 Feb. 2022
• No matter, his book is actually a sparkling social history of the borough in its adolescence.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
• Now, Os will be running the 26.2 miles through New York’s five boroughs on his own — in his wife’s honor.
  — Emily Palmer, People.com, 28 Oct. 2024
• Bragg’s progressive policies three weeks into his first term as prosecutor have been criticized as soft on crime and blamed for a rash of violence in the borough.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 29 Jan. 2022
• Altogether, the attacks took place in every borough in which the subway operates, on four different train lines and in four different stations.
  — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
• Ealey: This collaboration represents paying homage to our city, our borough, and its team, the Brooklyn Nets.
  — Essence, 7 Feb. 2022
• Dozens of cases, involving Franco’s work in Brooklyn, are also seeking to be undone by the DA in that borough.
  — NBC News, 21 Jan. 2022
• The building also has the highest outdoor tennis court in the borough, located 75-feet above the street with spectacular views over Manhattan.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 28 Jan. 2022
• The New York Marathon is run through the streets of the five boroughs for the first time.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024