Sentence Examples

1. Of pride, indeed, there was, perhaps, scarcely enough his indifference to a confusion of rank, bordered too much on inelegance of mind.
2. Massive columns topped by carved, golden palm leaves bordered the entire room, extending up two stories to an elaborately painted ceiling that belonged in another era.
3. My father went beyond liberality and bordered on prodigality, a disposition by no means advantageous to a married man who has children to succeed to his name and position.
4. The cornflower blue of the petals was intricately picked out in a shining blue enamel bordered with gold.
5. The edges of the property bordered a forested area with a seasonal creek running through it.
6. Her head and neck, shoulders, ears, arms, hands, and toes were loaded down with jewels and gems with bracelets, earrings, and rings while a tunic bordered with gold, and covered with a light muslin robe, betrayed the outline of her form.
7. They scanned her from head to foot, and observed that she had on red silk stockings with garters of white taffety bordered with gold and pearl her breeches were of green and gold stuff, and under an open jacket or jerkin of the same she wore a doublet of the finest white and gold cloth her shoes were white and such as men wear she carried no sword at her belt, but only a richly ornamented dagger, and on her fingers she had several handsome rings.
8. His reputation as a wizard was marked with a streak of cruelty and perfidy that bordered on the definition of one about to be consumed by the dark powers.
9. I collapsed against one of the larger boulders that bordered the water.
10. As always, the bumper-to-bumper traffic in and around downtown bordered on horrific, and Ryan became frustrated, cursing under his breath.