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
  • For years Democrats told us that there was no crisis at the border.
    Rafael Perez, Orange County Register, 28 May 2024
  • The heat can pose a problem even for students who cross the border in their cars.
    Aina Marzia, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
  • These are people that come to the border and seek asylum.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 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
  • Hrubieszów is about 180 miles southeast of Warsaw in the Lublin region and near the border with Ukraine.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 22 May 2024
  • That’s what appeared to happen two years ago in Reynosa, just up the border from Matamoros.
    James Pollard, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Two boats had drifted off and gotten stuck on the Israeli side of the border, with two more getting beached near the pier.
    The Editors, National Review, 30 May 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
  • Her teachers do not know many details about her journey to the border.
    Photographs Kirsten Luce, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Since then, hundreds have been killed in the strikes in Lebanon and dozens in Israel, while tens of thousands on each side of the border have been displaced.
    Bassem Mroue, Johnson Lai, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Lugo lives in Mexico and handles the business needs on that side of the border.
    Roxana Becerril, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Many Americans who live across the border in Brownsville walk or drive to Matamoros for lunch or to see a doctor.
    Leo Sands, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 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
  • When the border committee finished its work, the county line was drawn down the center of the valley.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 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
  • Tens of thousands of people on both the Lebanese and Israeli sides of the border have been evacuated from their homes.
    Natasha Turak, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2024

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