BOUNDARY in a Sentence

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43 example sentences for BOUNDARY, such as:

1. The boundary questions still remain unsettled.
2. Drug traffickers operate across national boundaries.
3. The fence marks the boundary between my land and hers.
4. We continued along the southern boundary of the country.
5. The palings of Rosings Park was their boundary on one side.

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 Meanings and Examples of BOUNDARY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
boundary
 n.  dividing line that marks the edge or limit of something; border
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  Rumor had it that there would be heavy fighting up there near the boundary between Georgia and Tennessee.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  With everything burned down and boundary lines wiped out, no one knows just where their land begins or ends.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  Put by Rosedale in terms of business-like give-and-take, this understanding took on the harmless air of a mutual accommodation, like a transfer of property or a revision of boundary lines.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
4  Their quarrels on this subject passed the boundary of the close-growing cedars, and were heard in the street by whoever wished to loiter and listen.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
5  A wide and apparently an impervious boundary of forests severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
6  Before opening his mouth, however, he bent his eyes slowly along the whole living boundary of earnest faces, as if to temper his expressions to the capacities of his audience.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
7  He knew that Magua had not come unattended, and he also knew that Huron spies watched the movements of their new enemies, along the whole boundary of the woods.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
8  My eye passed all other objects to rest on those most remote, the blue peaks; it was those I longed to surmount; all within their boundary of rock and heath seemed prison-ground, exile limits.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  The palings of Rosings Park was their boundary on one side.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
10  The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35
11  The Alps here come closer to the lake, and we approached the amphitheatre of mountains which forms its eastern boundary.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
12  The Greeks wept for joy when they beheld the Mediterranean from the hills of Asia, and hailed with rapture the boundary of their toils.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
13  I have a strange fancy," observed the sensitive minister, "that this brook is the boundary between two worlds, and that thou canst never meet thy Pearl again.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
14  When she reached the corner of the enclosure, where the steps were formed for mounting the boundary bank, she sprang up with a lightness which seemed strange after her listless movement towards the well.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
15  The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  A blind man who leans against a wall imagines that it's the boundary of the world.
2  The ball rose in a high arc and fell behind the boundary line.
3  The Ural mountains mark the boundary between Europe and Asia.
4  Establish which boundary hedges are yours, and which belong to a neighbour.
5  The fence marks the boundary between my land and hers.
6  The Mississippi River forms a natural boundary between Iowa and Illinois.
7  The boundary questions still remain unsettled.
8  We continued along the southern boundary of the country.
9  Planning drawings sometimes show a boundary line, though there is no legal requirement for it.
10  Drug traffickers operate across national boundaries.
11  Troops have agreed to stay within specific boundaries to avoid confrontations.
12  The need to define the boundaries of obedience is at the heart of Richardson's novel.
13  In this chapter we define the boundaries of the sports industry and outline the key contributors to its economic importance.
14  National boundaries are becoming increasingly meaningless in the global economy.
15  For reliable information about present national boundaries, consult an up-to-date atlas.