How to Use the border in a Sentence

the border

noun
  • Over the past five years, more than 2,200 miles of roads have been built along the border.
    Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Many families have been forced to flee the city and head for the border town of Rafah.
    CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The heat can pose a problem even for students who cross the border in their cars.
    Aina Marzia, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
  • If Nurse doesn't come south of the border, Atkinson could become the top choice.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The pair found a boat that took them up the coast to the border with the Dominican Republic.
    Jillian Sykes, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Most of the people are people that crossed the border, work hard, or maybe grew up here.
    Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Others have been spotted on the Georgia side of the border.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 6 Jan. 2024
  • So, on that front, if - if your leverage here is the border, tell me, what is the sticking point at this - this stage?
    CBS News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The voters who think so are voting for Trump, and most trust him to handle the crisis at the border.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • From there, people then journey by bus to open areas of the border.
    Adam Yamaguchi, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Coloradans from Dinosaur cross the border to get groceries and health care.
    Markian Hawryluk, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
  • We were seated along the border of the dining room next to a trickling water feature, with a view of LensCrafters across the hall.
    Linze Rice, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
  • My main focus is to get a bill out of the House that funds the government, keeps the government open and closes the border.
    Alex Thomas, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2023
  • No one else was injured and the other migrants dashed back to the Mexican side of the border, the AP reports.
    Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Israel has deployed reservist troops to towns along the border with Lebanon.
    Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • But even far from the border, the Israeli strikes continued to hit nearby.
    Ameera Harouda, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Lugo lives in Mexico and handles the business needs on that side of the border.
    Roxana Becerril, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Growing up, the 26-year-old artist split his time between Tijuana and San Diego near the border.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2023
  • There could be isolated gusts of up to 74 mph near the border, which is located in an exposed area of the desert.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The next day, their names were added to the list of evacuees who could cross the border into Egypt and then fly to Qatar for medical treatment.
    Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The players are one section, and a pretty straightforward piece of the puzzle, much like the border.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Gladkov said the sanatorium in the village of Lavy, about 40km (25 miles) from the border, was shelled, killing two refugees and a staff member.
    Susie Blann, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The name nods to the leading theory of its provenance: Sonora, the Mexican state just across the border.
    J. J. Goode, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Three of the hostages released on Sunday are Thais who had been working in Israel when the Hamas combatants crossed the border.
    Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023
  • In the early days of the war, Lviv served as a main transit point for millions of refugees from different parts of the country that crossed the border to Europe.
    Mstyslav Chernov, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2023
  • Sderot, Israel, near the border with Gaza, was the biggest city attack by Hamas on October 7th.
    Greg Dixon, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Over 2,500 cargo trucks cross the border from Tijuana to the U.S. every single day.
    Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • As a young conscript four decades ago, Kang was a machine gunner stationed near the border with North Korea.
    Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The group entered a devastated area north of Gaza City via the border fence that Hamas terrorists burst through on Oct. 7.
    NBC News, 6 Nov. 2023
  • But no one should expect tougher rules at the border to end the surge in irregular migration.
    TIME, 9 Jan. 2024

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