Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: borders
IPA transcription: [b'ɔɹdɚz]
Pronunciations of borders
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Usage examples
  • When he last passed these borders, he was bringing his bride from Ayr!
  • I shall accompany you myself to the Scottish borders, and there made my reply."
  • I judged at once that some of my shipmates must be drawing near along the borders of the fen.
  • On one of my first jaunts into the suburbs of Tallahassee I noticed not far from the road a bit of swamp,--shallow pools with muddy borders and flats.
  • Slowly, I emerged from these, and there, below me, I saw the stupendous plain that I had seen from my room in this house that stands upon the borders of the Silences.
  • As if in answer to his words there rose suddenly out of the vast gloom of the moor that strange cry which I had already heard upon the borders of the great Grimpen Mire.
  • The Spokesmen of the Gens whose borders touched those of the devasted Dalis area, were reporting again, and their voices were high pitched with fear that threatened to break the bounds of sanity.
  • I scanned the water and the borders of the lake for signs of life,—more particularly, I may as well admit, for a certain maroon-colored canoe and a girl in a red tam-o’-shanter, but lake and summer cottages were mine alone.
  • While her description of any real occurrence is, as we have seen, homely, graphic, and forcible, when she gives way to her powers of creation, her fancy and her language alike run riot, sometimes to the very borders of apparent delirium.
  • So they went on steadily for two nights and days; but upon the third day, when they were hoping in a short time to view the summit of the precipice, and to land upon the borders of this world, the bird looked round as usual for a piece of the loaf.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Acid2, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Nouakchott-Nord Region, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Lewisville, Texas, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording African Union, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Han dynasty, License CC BY-SA 4.0