If you were to ask her questions now she'd be in a state bordering on hysteria within ten minutes.
But I sank into a corner of the compartment in a state bordering upon collapse.
Yet at the last count there were six oil-rich states bordering the Gulf.
Shirley, herself, sits with eyes closed in a state bordering on ecstasy.
"Tell me what it all means," said I, in a state bordering on hysterics.
Charles de Marigny had worked himself up into a state bordering on frenzy.
It was also used by other rulers whose states bordered the Empire or were within its sphere of influence.
And this dissolution is accomplished in a state bordering on panic.
I'm ashamed to admit it but I spent the last few days in a state bordering on euphoria.
The initial shock absorbed, he was in a state bordering on euphoria.