Definitions
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- v. Present participle of border.
- adj. Having a common boundary or border
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of making a border, or of surrounding with a border.
- n. Material for a border; a border of any kind; particularly, an ornamental band of paper placed around the upper part of the walls of a room.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He waggled his eyebrows at me, his expression bordering on a leer.
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The bulging eyes and fierce, gummy smile: it was an expression bordering on hysteria, and the intervening years had done nothing to dampen it.
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Captain Spock observed their surroundings with an expression bordering on exasperation, then turned to survey the landing party.
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“It’s the windows,” Taylor said, her expression bordering on apologetic.
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Our health care system pays for some procedures to be done in bordering states when there is an emergency need that cannot be accommodated quickly.
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He often worked with congressmen in bordering districts as well as then-Sen.
Owen B. Pickett, Virginia congressman who supported defense efforts, dies at 80
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Despite being located in bordering states, Arkansas and Oklahoma
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Harper glanced over her shoulder, her expression bordering on hopeless.
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Tacitus describes as bordering on the place "where nature ends," held thus in his day tribes that would later have for their capitals, towns founded long before by Celts: London, Vienna, Paris, and Milan.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
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Pangnirtung Settlement is on a broad sloping, moss-covered plain bordering on a fiord of the same name that runs thirty miles north easterly from Cumberland Sound in Eskimo it means "the two-year-old deer".
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