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

Border Guards in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: guards
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 7
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 26.7 words

Words in this phrase

border guards

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • border can mean: The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions. Frequent word
  • guards can mean: plural of guard Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

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

5 000 border guards fall under 1× and allows border guards immediately to 1× and iranian border guards in the 1× and syrian border guards facilitate the 1× and syrian border guards will facilitate 1× and taliban border guards 1× and training border guards in techniques 1× border guards have arrested 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a smuggler leading 1× a soviet border 1× april 17 2018 1× armenian prime minister 1× as of 2007 1× bogdan yermokhin originally 1×

Common sentence endings:

and afu servicemen 1× border more closely 1× border patrol work 1× by the authorities 1× drug trafficking interdiction 1× iranian border guards 1×

Context words

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

iranian 5× russian 4× people 4× across 3× ukraine 3× military 3× syrian 3× pakistan 2× armenian 2× patrol 2× smuggling 2× guard 2×

Related phrases

border patrol security guards southern border border wall border security border protection border crossing prison guards irish border revolutionary guards

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around guards:

security guards 20× prison guards 9× revolutionary guards 8×

Just before it in the phrase index:

border dispute border crossing border controls boot camps boolean ring book value

Just after it in the phrase index:

border patrol border protection border security border wall boris becker boris johnson

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

border patrol border wall border security border protection border crossing border controls

Same ending:

security guards prison guards revolutionary guards

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "border guards" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 5 000 border guards fall under, and allows border guards immediately to, iranian, russian and people stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with border patrol, security guards, southern border, security guards, prison guards and revolutionary guards, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with border guards

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

Short example sentences

Russian border guards complain about lack of equipment: ISWnewsweek. (9 words)

Mr Yermak tweeted: "Among them are national guardsmen, border guards and AFU servicemen. (13 words)

Militants often target Pakistani and Iranian border guards in the region, the reported further said. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

Video footage from the scene showed crowds pushing their way past the border guards in armoured vehicles, and a huge convoy of motor vehicles massed at the border at Bab al-Hawa, the main gateway between and Syria’s northwest. (40 words)

The agreement will see Russian military police and Syrian border guards “facilitate the removal” of Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) fighters and their weapons from within 30 kilometers (18 miles) of the Turkish-Syrian border. (36 words)

A smuggler leading them across the border disappeared when the group was intercepted by Algerian border guards, only to reappear on the Libyan side after all their belongings had been taken by the authorities. (34 words)

Example sentences (20)

April 17, 2018: In the southeast, across the border in Pakistan (Baluchistan) several Iranian Baluchi separatists based in Pakistan crossed the Iranian border at night and clashed with Iranian border guards.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said today that the ongoing deployment of border guards in the Tegh community section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border did not pass without escalation.

By the time of the deadly confrontation, tensions were already high at the border after six months of skirmishes between Iranian and Taliban border guards.

Some of them are increased patrolling: increase in the number of border guards and patrols to monitor the border more closely.

We have Border Patrol agents who are traveling around the world and training border guards in techniques that they use.

Border guards have arrested a man in a wetsuit who admitted to smuggling surgical masks across a river from Ukraine into Romania, Ukraine's border guard service said on Thursday.

A smuggler leading them across the border disappeared when the group was intercepted by Algerian border guards, only to reappear on the Libyan side after all their belongings had been taken by the authorities.

BSF IG Minz said the border guards have investigated and traced origin of these drugs to Indo-Myanmar border but they couldn’t give details on where these are manufactured.

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From noon (0900 GMT) on Wednesday, Russian military police and Syrian border guards will “facilitate the removal” of Kurdish fighters and their weapons from within 30 kilometres of the border.

The agreement will see Russian military police and Syrian border guards “facilitate the removal” of Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) fighters and their weapons from within 30 kilometers (18 miles) of the Turkish-Syrian border.

Video footage from the scene showed crowds pushing their way past the border guards in armoured vehicles, and a huge convoy of motor vehicles massed at the border at Bab al-Hawa, the main gateway between and Syria’s northwest.

As of 2007 the Chinese People's Liberation Army employed two battalions of horse-mounted border guards in Xinjing Military District for border patrol work.

A Soviet border guard post had been shelled by an unknown party resulting, according to Soviet reports, in the deaths of four and injuries of nine border guards.

The 5,000 border guards fall under the Interior Ministry 's supervision and are responsible for border protection, passport and customs duties, and share responsibility with the navy for smuggling and drug trafficking interdiction.

Bogdan Yermokhin, originally from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, tried to return to Ukraine in March but was stopped by Russian border guards.

I fully support the measures taken by Finland,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen posted on social media, thanking the Finnish Border Guards “for protecting our European borders”.

Militants often target Pakistani and Iranian border guards in the region, the reported further said.

Mr Yermak tweeted: "Among them are national guardsmen, border guards and AFU servicemen.

Russian border guards complain about lack of equipment: ISWnewsweek.

The rule was imposed early in the Covid pandemic, ostensibly to prevent infected people entering the country, and allows border guards immediately to turn people away without even accepting their asylum applications.

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