had bordered
- past perfect of border.
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
Away to the east stretched the swampy brush-grown country that had bordered the line of progress for many miles.
From The Auto Boys' Quest by Braden, James A. (James Andrew)
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 Carey, Rosa Nouchette
Sintram's repentance had bordered on settled despair; no one knew even what he was doing in the fortress of evil report on the Rocks of the Moon.
From Sintram and His Companions by La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de
