Sentence examples for as a frontier from inspiring English sources

"It's getting recognized as a frontier".

Kennesaw was repeatedly portrayed as a frontier town with armed citizens prowling the streets, he said.

Charlemagne established the Elbe as a frontier against the northern Slavs.

Aswān later served as a frontier garrison post for the Romans, the Turks, and the British.

The Alaskan economy is conditioned strongly by the state's continuing status as a frontier.

An agreement with the Romans renewed the Euphrates line as a frontier.

It served as a frontier fortress until its defenses were dismantled in 1878.

Marsh, Mitchell writes, was an inveterate "braggart" who "portrayed himself as a frontier hero".

I've always thought of Margate as a frontier town where you had to take a risk.

It served as a frontier outpost against Tatar raids, and its population consisted mainly of Ukrainian Cossacks.

A kind of Russian Dodge City, it was founded by Cossack horsemen in 1794 as a frontier settlement.