Examples of “bourne” in a Sentence

noun A boundary or limit, or a destination one is heading toward.

• The poem describes the sea as the traveler's final bourne.
• They walked on, with no clear bourne in sight.
• Death, that undiscovered bourne, was the subject of the old poem.

noun A small stream, especially one that flows only part of the year.

• The bourne flows only after heavy winter rains and then dries up.
• Children jumped across the narrow bourne behind the farm.
• A little bourne trickled through the chalk valley.