Example Sentences

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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

At other times allegations have bordered on the absurd.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 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

The compression of her lips, together with the hardening of the lower half of her face, was not now attractive; to an impartial spectator, it would have bordered on the repellent.

From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram