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

The Colonies were bordering on a state of revolution, when, through the influence of the Earl of Chatham, the Stamp Act was repealed.

From Stories Of Georgia by Harris, Joel Chandler