have bordered
- present perfect of border.
Example Sentences
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There has been great analysis and the usual knockabout stuff that is essential to Calcutta Cup week, but the hot takes in the build-up have bordered on the barmy.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025
Some espionage cases have bordered on the comical.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
But multiple calls to Pittsburgh over the past few years have only yielded trade-return requests that have bordered on illogical.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2022
They might have bordered on something resembling chic if they had a flat front and a discreet side zipper, but with a bulky extended-tab waistband and fly—perhaps a mark of J. Crew’s cost-cutting measures?
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2018
Some of the plays seem to have bordered on the political, as The Plunderings, describing the devastation of Sicily in the time of the poet.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
