How to Use abut in a Sentence

abut

verb

• Their property and our property abut.
• The high school, which abuts the 10 Freeway, is in a park-poor area.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
• Much of the land is owned by Drexel, whose main campus abuts the site.
  — Jon Hurdle, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
• Follow the same procedure with the short side that abuts it (C).
  — Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2017
• The property that abuts the back yard was Lovera’s, police said.
  — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 23 July 2019
• If that were to happen, the civic center property would abut the I-10 ramp.
  — Margaret Kates | [e-mail], al, 20 Aug. 2022
• The land abutted a site called Fountain Square, which had been vacant for 14 years.
  — Jason Grotto, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2019
• Food trucks abutted the traffic lane where cars could still head south along the street, and lights hung overhead.
  — Lila Seidman, Glendale News-Press, 3 Sep. 2019
• Get rid of the flammable stuff abutting your house — from wood mulch to flammable plants to trees, if their canopies are getting close to your house.
  — Time, 22 Aug. 2023
• On the main floor, an open kitchen abutted a double-height dining room.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• The long, empty parking lot abuts the park and connects to Central Street on the other side.
  — Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• The two buildings would also abut, with buffering, the back yards of homes on Edgewood Road.
  — cleveland, 6 Oct. 2022
• Each tile abuts those next to it, so there are no grout lines or gaps, just a smooth stretch of gorgeous mother of pearl.
  — Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Jan. 2024
• The Park at the Park abuts the outfield of Petco Park and has been used for rock and electronic music concerts.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2019
• The Tamaulipas official said the father and daughter set off from a small park that abuts the river.
  — Peter Orsi, The Denver Post, 26 June 2019
• Some cities charge 100 percent of the cost to abutting properties.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 19 June 2019
• The difference is that Israel’s colony—the West Bank—abuts it, rather than being a thousand miles away.
  — Susie Linfield, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2023
• Waves of embers crested against a two-story home on Sheffield Way in Porter Ranch; flames lapped at the back of it, which abuts a hillside.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2019
• In Porter Ranch, waves of embers crested against a two-story home on Sheffield Way; flames lapped at the back of it, which abuts a hillside.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2019
• The house at the end of the block that abuts train tracks is intact, but many others along the leafy green street are either boarded up or vacant.
  — USA Today, 12 June 2019
• Jon Kemp, a resident whose house abuts Cabrini and who has fought the dog park plan, said the issue for her is not the dogs themselves.
  — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 1 Aug. 2017
• Before the war, the area abutting the school had been a little park, complete with burbling fountain.
  — Sabra Ayres, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
• John Ohman watched as the beach eroded and his restaurant was taken over by waves and sand, now nearly abutting the ocean.
  — Laney Ruckstuhl, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• But one thing abut the film really stood out to me: a scene in which the couple cozied up by a campfire and watched the Northern Lights.
  — Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 22 Mar. 2019
• The salt-tolerant grass abuts the church his family used to attend.
  — Tik Root, Time, 7 Oct. 2019
• One such inlet is Jumba beach, which abuts the site of an old Swahili village near the bustling city of Mombasa, in southern Kenya.
  — Juma Adero, The New Yorker, 26 July 2023
• Adjust Around Edges Jenna flexed the stencil where the patio abuts a wall and taped it for ease in stenciling.
  — Jody Garlock, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 June 2023
• But after a bend in the road, boom: a 47-room golden Palladian palace which abuts the River Thames.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2018
• Head to Montgomery Whitewater to cool off with a rafting trip on a manmade rapids course that abuts the Alabama River.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 12 July 2024
• Crooks still managed to approach the American Glass Research building, which abuts the rally grounds.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024