border
noun
the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.
had bordered
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past perfectof border.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Ms. Hart’s earlier show, “Shells,” which she wrote with Nick Chase, involved the love life of a character named Michelle Hoffman, a self-absorbed woman whose preoccupation with one particular date she had bordered on obsession.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2011
The brouhaha injected badly needed life in Roddick, who had bordered on lethargy to that point.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2010
Sheer humanity, the mere instinct of womankind, had obliged me to watch by Miss Darrell through the previous night: for some hours her hysterical state had bordered on frenzy.
From Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey
The hedge was gone, and so was a good strip of the field it had bordered.
From The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 by A. R. (Augustus Robert) Buckland
At intervals during the day their trail had bordered this little river, which Clare had christened the Meander.
From The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] by Hulbert Footner
