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Example sentences for "borderland"

Lexicographically close words:
border; bordered; borderer; borderers; bordering; borderlands; borderline; borderman; bordermen; borders
  1. The Veterans moved on the savage borderland and conquered it.

  2. With them also, or following them, or mayhap meeting them in the dreamy borderland of Kentucky or Missouri to which he is fortuitously indigenous, went the harmless, necessary Mule.

  3. And yet the unknown and the borderland that separates it from the known are always near by, to tempt curiosity and the spirit of adventure.

  4. Furthermore, the activity of this Society has been prominent in making the borderland of science of to-day present a far more hopeful aspect than ever before.

  5. We are beyond the borderland of civilisation here; We have left our scruples behind us, for we know that if we refrain from taking those rails, those doors and window frames, those stout oak beams, some one else will have them shortly.

  6. The battery position, we found, was just on the borderland of this zone of desolation.

  7. I am on the borderland of a romance," he thought, "and a romance of which the ending will be pleasanter than the beginning, unless I am much mistaken.

  8. Optical complications fatally impeded sharpness of vision, and the phenomena took place in a debateable borderland of uncertainty.

  9. Nor did the new and feverish existence over whose borderland she had been transported seem real, save in certain hours she spent in Ditmar's company, when he made her forget--hers being a temperament to feel the weight of an unnatural secrecy.

  10. Thus she found herself, trembling, on the borderland of faith.

  11. But we are being tempted outside our arbitrary boundary and must return to the Yeovil road that wanders up hill and down again into the charming vales of the Somerset borderland by way of East Chinnock and West Coker.

  12. This part of the Kashmir borderland includes Kanjut (or Hunza) and Ladakh.

  13. Hence many an old hunter, when far from the borderland of civilization, has buried his "pard" in the Missouri River!

  14. They were ripe for adventure, desperate almost in their determination to reestablish the fortunes that had been wrecked by the financial panic of 1857, which had swept with disastrous effect along the entire borderland of the entire nation.

  15. If there is any music that seems to hover on the borderland between ecstasy and suffering, it is this.

  16. The man could fix with precision the most elusive emotions, could describe the sensations that flow on the borderland of consciousness, vaguely, and that most of us cannot grasp for very dizziness.

  17. Thus the theory of animism illumines the religious condition of that borderland of history in which Romulus and Numa Pompilius have their dwelling-place.

  18. It is peculiarly useful to the student of Roman religion because he stands on the borderland and looking backwards sees just enough dark shapes looming up behind him to crave more light.

  19. This uncanny impression then easily develops into untenable speculations on the borderland of normal intellect.

  20. Write to her, Charley, and tell her where is my resting place and that my spirit will wait for hers in that borderland twixt heaven and earth.

  21. Beneath the whole was a painting, the scene of which the artist had located somewhere on the borderland between heaven and hell.

  22. Thus, though he has won a world-wide fame as the Cornish poet, Hawker was really Devonian; in this borderland of the two counties there is practically no difference.

  23. As Anjou is the architectural borderland between Northern and Southern Gaul, so Maine is again the architectural borderland between Normandy and Anjou.

  24. When we see traces of this inquisitive tendency we find ourselves on the borderland of dualism where the transition is taking place into the realm of monism.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "borderland" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.