Sample sentences for FRONTIER - verbalworkout.com

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
the frontier of Tibet

Definition

an international boundary or a wilderness at the edge of a settled area

Indian soldiers and technicians assisted in staffing some of the checkposts on the frontier with Tibet.

frontier = an international boundary or a wilderness at the edge of a settled area

Other Uses (with this meaning)

They pass freely through mountain passes along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier.

frontier = an international boundary or a wilderness at the edge of a settled area

The frontiers between the three super-states are in some places arbitrary, and in others they fluctuate according to the fortunes of war, but in general they follow geographical lines.
George Orwell -- 1984

frontiers = international boundaries

In his life, his living life, he go over the Turkey frontier and attack his enemy on his own ground.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

frontier = national border

Ten minutes later they were crossing the frontier that separated civilization from savagery.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

frontier = boundary

Our new home was one of the oldest buildings in town, Mom proudly told us, with a real frontier quality to it.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle

frontier = wilderness area

There was one thing that much aided me in renewing and re-creating the stalwart soldier of the Niagara frontier—the man of true and simple energy.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

frontier = wilderness area

When I was about five years old, while making an excursion beyond the frontiers of Italy, they passed a week on the shores of the Lake of Como.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

frontiers = international boundaries

He holed up alone, reading Zane Grey novels and wishing himself into them, a man and his horse on the frontier, broken off from the world.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

frontier = wilderness area

Instead they had maintained indirect control in the same way the British had, relying on the Pashtun-recruited Frontier Corps rather than regular soldiers.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

frontier = a wilderness area starting to be settled

2 —as in:
the frontier of brain science

Definition

the most recent understandings and achievements in a changing field

frontiers = the most recent understandings and achievements in a changing field

Other Uses (with this meaning)

frontier = the most recent understandings and achievements in a changing field

Blood rushed to my brain; I felt an animating surge of adrenaline, of possibility, of a frontier being pushed outward.
Tara Westover -- Educated

frontier = rapidly changing area of knowledge

...against this instrumental background, a much more than human voice began to warble; now throaty, now from the head, now hollow as a flute, now charged with yearning harmonics, it effortlessly passed from Gaspard's Forster's low record on the very frontiers of musical tone to a trilled bat-note high above the highest C to which (in 1770, at the Ducal opera of Parma, and to the astonishment of Mozart) Lucrezia Ajugari, alone of all the singers in history, once piercingly gave utterance.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

frontiers = most extreme limit

The frontier of hope that we all innately pursue will never close.
Alan Greenspan -- The Age of Turbulence

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