Such was the difference in class that All Stars stroked the ball around with a nonchalance that sometimes bordered on the arrogant. |
The advice given to those affected by the potato blight bordered on the absurd. |
He was a street fighter whose attraction to violence bordered on the pathological. |
The horizon, in all directions, seems to be perpetually bordered by a small jut of land, giving the impression of driving through a bowl. |
It was a smallish expanse of grassland bordered by hedges the horses could easily jump if they were so inclined. |
By contrast, those in favour of reform were accorded a respect that bordered on the deferential. |