border
noun
the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.
were bordering
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past progressiveof border.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Fox News: It's very surprising that you were bordering on pre-diabetic.
From Fox News ● Feb. 15, 2020
Even in my despair, though, I had to reluctantly acknowledge that my Dantean melodramatics were bordering on the histrionic.
From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2017
Reading East MP Rob Wilson said Anne Eden's comments to him were "bordering on misleading".
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2015
If I am honest those characters that were not stereotyped were bordering on ridiculous themselves, a modern day Holocaust survivor who is fighting Nazis from the suburbs for example.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2012
With which they all went off into fresh peals of laughter, at various reminiscences, and were bordering upon a condition of imbecility when Lorraine at last joined them with the latest news.
From Winding Paths by Gertrude Page
