Below you will find example sentences with "border crossing". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Border Crossing in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: border
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 30.4 words

Words in this phrase

border crossing

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • border can mean: The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions. Frequent word
  • crossing can mean: Cross-breeding. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

28 the border crossing on highway 1× al hawa border crossing 1× al karameh border crossing the only 1× an illegal border crossing to sneak 1× at the border crossing 1× blocked the border crossing 1× busiest european border crossing point 1× closures and border crossing fees have 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a drone picture 1× after a situation 1× after getting clearance 1× as a result 1× draconian tariffs sporadic 1× drivers wait at 1×

Common sentence endings:

the border crossing 2× and capital equipment 1× bank and jordan 1× border crossing point 1× border each day 1× border protection said 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

israel 6× aid 4× gaza 4× rafah 4× kerem 3× shalom 3× palestinians 3× jordan 3× egypt 3× customs 3× protection 3× across 3×

Related phrases

border patrol southern border border wall border security animal crossing border protection level crossing crossing new irish border border controls

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around border:

border patrol 20× southern border 20× border security 17× border protection 13×

Just before it in the phrase index:

border controls boot camps boolean ring book value book titled book publishing

Just after it in the phrase index:

border dispute border guards border patrol border protection border security border wall

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

border patrol border wall border security border protection border controls border guards

Same ending:

animal crossing level crossing shalom crossing

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "border crossing" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 30.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 28 the border crossing on highway, al hawa border crossing, israel, aid and gaza stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with border patrol, southern border, border wall, border patrol, southern border and border security, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with border crossing

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

The Erez border crossing into Gaza has also been shuttered amid rising border tensions with the Palestinian enclave. (18 words)

Drivers wait at U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspection booths at the Peace Arch border crossing across the Canada-U. (21 words)

Egypt uses the border crossing as a pressure point on Hamas, just as Israel does with its border crossings into Gaza. (21 words)

Longer example sentences

Twenty-four aid trucks crossed through Israel’s Kerem Shalom border crossing point into Gaza on Sunday, marking the first time aid had gone through this crossing since the war began, Palestinian Rafah border crossing spokesman Wael Abu Omar told ABC News. (42 words)

Moneer Abdel Mohsen, a Sudanese citizen who fled across the Egyptian border and took a flight back to the United Arab Emirates after a trip to Sudan to see friends, said he waited a day and a half at the border crossing. (42 words)

The photos appear to have been taken on 22 February as Guaidó used an illegal border crossing to sneak across Venezuela’s western border into Colombia to attend a Live Aid-style concert in the town of Cúcuta. (38 words)

Example sentences (20)

Twenty-four aid trucks crossed through Israel’s Kerem Shalom border crossing point into Gaza on Sunday, marking the first time aid had gone through this crossing since the war began, Palestinian Rafah border crossing spokesman Wael Abu Omar told ABC News.

During the period when Germany was divided, the Lower Saxon border crossing at Helmstedt found itself on the main transport artery to West Berlin and, from 1945 to 1990 was the busiest European border crossing point.

Six people were arrested along the Nyamapanda Border area in Mudzi district, Mashonaland East province for illegal border crossing while one person was arrested at Beitbridge Border Post for smuggling.

The movement restrictions in place have resulted in blocking the access of Palestinians seeking to travel to Jordan to the al-Karameh border crossing, the only land crossing for Palestinians between the occupied West Bank and Jordan.

It would also constitute far more aid than is currently coming in over land through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt and Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel, or through airdrops.

After getting clearance from Israel, the Filipinos then proceeded to the Jordan side of the border at the King Hussein border crossing where they get their transit visas.

As a result of discussions mediated by Qatar, Israel and Egypt maintain strict control over the Rafah border crossing; Canada has no influence over the number of people who cross the border each day.

Drivers wait at U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspection booths at the Peace Arch border crossing across the Canada-U.

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However, it did say the Syrian government's offer could be a "basis for the United Nations to lawfully conduct cross-border humanitarian operations via the Bab al-Hawa border crossing".

Moneer Abdel Mohsen, a Sudanese citizen who fled across the Egyptian border and took a flight back to the United Arab Emirates after a trip to Sudan to see friends, said he waited a day and a half at the border crossing.

A drone picture of a line of trucks waiting on an Egyptian road along the border with Israel, near the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Thursday.

Story update Nov. 28: The border crossing on Highway 4 reopened to southbound travelers on Thursday morning, but Montana highways remained in poor condition, the United States Customs and Border Protection said.

The A1 at De Lutte, towards the German border was brought to a complete standstill for some time when farmers blocked the border crossing.

The photos appear to have been taken on 22 February as Guaidó used an illegal border crossing to sneak across Venezuela’s western border into Colombia to attend a Live Aid-style concert in the town of Cúcuta.

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents take part in an operational readiness exercise for closing the San Ysidro border crossing in January.

After a situation assessment in the Kerem Shalom border crossing, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman addressed the Palestinians on Sunday, and said the key to opening the border to transfers of goods is the continued quiet in the region.

Egypt uses the border crossing as a pressure point on Hamas, just as Israel does with its border crossings into Gaza.

The Erez border crossing into Gaza has also been shuttered amid rising border tensions with the Palestinian enclave.

Draconian tariffs, sporadic border closures, and border crossing "fees" have a negative effect on legal imports of both consumer products and capital equipment.

The busy Pak-Afghan border crossing at Wesh, Afghanistan is in a flat and dry area, though this route involves Pakistan's Khojak Pass at convert just convert from the border.

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