Usage examples (34)

• Even in the previous century the parapsychological faculties of the human brain had belonged to the questionable field of the so-called borderland sciences.
• Like many historians, the author prefers the word borderland to frontier because it connotes a place of instability, a place of conflict among several sources of power.
• Most of this money came from a special fund earmarked for development of "borderland" areas of the country.
• His eyes were shut, and he was in that hot borderland which is the nearest approach to sleep at noontide in Nigeria.