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come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
His playing approaches that of Horowitz
This borders on discrimination!
How To Use border on In A Sentence
- It is thought that the shittah and shittim wood of the Bible, of which Moses made the greater part of the tables, altars and planks of the tabernacle, was the same as the black acacia found in the deserts of Arabia and about Mount Sinai and the mountains which border on the Red Sea, and is so hard and solid as to be almost incorruptible. Among the Trees at Elmridge
- Mean border width was determined by measuring the width of the lighter colored border on the anterior edge of the second costal scute, and dividing this measurement by the scute width.
- This very careful attitude to money can sometimes border on meanness.
- Once the border on the wood is engraved, a fine cotton canvas is affixed to the wood with rabbit skin glue - a binding agent that is soaked in water overnight and then heated.
- Both republics border on the Black Sea.
- Nevertheless, I seem to myself to have lighted on a rich and little-cultivated corner; imagining that the subject is a good one, because still untouched, founded on facts, and with amplifiable variations that border on the probable. The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
- They did so for complex reasons that border on the religious, not the ambitious.
- This gently warped, oneiric world is filled with an often vigorous physicality that can border on the acrobatic. Times, Sunday Times
- I am aware that there is a problem with the border on the bottom of the slideout doodads…
- This conviction frequently prompts its spokespersons to make irritating declarations that border on megalomania, the odious or the comical.