borderline in English

noun
1
a line marking a border.
The state secretary for maritime affairs stationed naval ships at the 12-mile borderline to ensure that the vessel didn't enter his country's waters.
adjective
1
barely acceptable in quality or as belonging to a category; on the borderline.
references may be requested in borderline cases

Use "borderline" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "borderline" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "borderline", or refer to the context using the word "borderline" in the English Dictionary.

1. Nothing illegal, but borderline.

2. This is borderline kid.

3. She was a borderline candidate.

4. 16 This borderline is indefinable.

5. 5 The referee's decision was borderline.

6. 1 She was a borderline candidate.

7. The borderline cases here are instructive.

8. [Bacteriophagia as a borderline field of antibiosis]

9. 12 The borderline cases here are instructive.

10. 4 She slipped over the borderline into sleep.

11. Synonyms: Borderline, bound, boundary… Find the right word.

12. Maybe she's borderline and adept at hiding it.

13. Some of this borderline recklessness goes with the territory.

14. We're on the borderline of having to ration water.

15. 17 Johnson's arguments range from ridiculous to borderline slander.

16. 11 Johnson's arguments range from ridiculous to borderline slander.

17. 15 We're on the borderline of having to ration water.

18. 13 Caitlin's grades are borderline. She'll have to work harder.

19. The Borderline Dance & The Non-Borderlines' Dilemma By A.J

20. Risk assessment tends to overlook people with numerous borderline abnormalities .

21. Police shrink diagnosed him borderline with antisocial and sociopathic tendencies.

22. Tumour grading and tumour invasion were of borderline statistical significance.

23. 14 Some of this borderline recklessness goes with the territory.

24. The borderline between East and West Berlin was very Closely guarded

25. 9 This biography sometimes crosses the borderline between fact and fiction.

26. 21 synonyms for Clouded: ambiguous, borderline, chancy, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, equivocal

27. 20 Lower rates can help some borderline borrowers qualify for loans.

28. And when the borderline is tau equals zero, the eigenvalues are?

29. The borderline between friendship and intimacy is often hard to define.

30. After the exams, the teacher gave all borderline cases a spoken test.

31. Borderline unethical for me to keep that information from my own patient.

32. 10 The borderline between friendship and intimacy is often hard to define.

33. • His was a lifetime spent on the borderline between Chutzpah and hubris

34. Rose: That's borderline sexual harassment. Do you want me to sue you?

35. His was a lifetime spent on the borderline between chutzpah and hubris.

36. Other tumors are Mullerian adenosarcoma, endometrioid stromal sarcoma, and seromucinous borderline tumor.

37. We determine the borderline between easy and hard problems and present polynomial algorithms.

38. 21 A borderline case, and then deindustrialization had pushed him over the edge.

39. 3 After the exams, the teacher gave all borderline cases a spoken test.

40. 7 She's on the borderline between a first - and second - class honours degree.

41. 22 It was a borderline decision whether to send him to prison or not.

42. 2 In borderline cases , the student's coursework is considered, as well as exam grades.

43. 25 A further 19 percent of this sample were judged to be borderline cases.

44. 6 I was on the borderline between a first- and a second-class degree.

45. 24 It is broadcast that the two armies clashed near the borderline again before dawn.

46. They include Antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder

47. Lord Palmerston, who took over as British Foreign Secretary, agreed to the Arta-Volos borderline.

48. 26 Gilsland, near Lanercost Abbey,(www.Sentencedict.com) was only fifteen miles from the borderline at Kirkandrews.

49. 18 Meanwhile the borderline case is important in understanding the complexity of primary signal systems.

50. The same conclusion applies a fortiori where those borderline cases give rise to fortuitous advantages.