She was bordering on panic.
Now that you're past forty and bordering on geezerdom, you're beginning to sound like a dirty old man.
It was evident that the president intended to use all the influence which the party in power could exercise, to secure the return of General Julio Roca, who had distinguished himself in 1878 by a successful campaign against the warlike Indian tribes bordering on the Andes.
Any conversations I had with Martha were short, bordering on abrupt.
A'Ran's behavior was just as distant, but there was something bordering on resentment in the way Ne'Rin looked at her that made her uncomfortable.