Bordering

Examples

• They both rose, and slowly paced a green natural terrace bordering the chasm. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• During the rest of the day she did nothing but walk up and down the garden path in a state bordering on stupefaction. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Nations, bordering on the already infected countries, began to enter upon serious plans for the better keeping out of the enemy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This done, he moved with slow step and abstracted air towards a door in the wall bordering the orchard. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The redwoods grow in the fog belt in the counties bordering the coast from Monterey Bay north to the Oregon line. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is distinguishable from that of copper by possessing a paler yellow than pure gold, while the copper alloy has a color bordering upon reddish yellow. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The poor man had been drinking for weeks, and was in a state bordering on delirium tremens. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I have not for many years felt such perfect respect and admiration for a woman, who at least must be bordering upon fifty. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

Editor: Patrick