How to Use adjacent in a Sentence
adjacent
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Notably, this is at least the second time this year that a federal judge has agreed Trump was at least adjacent to a crime.
— Garrett M. Graff, Wired, 9 Aug. 2022 -
These spaces were lovely sleeping quarters that were adjacent to the icy buildings, and it was recommended that two out of three nights were spent away from the cold.
— Isis Briones, House Beautiful, 18 Aug. 2022 -
The offices adjacent to Ogburn’s, which had belonged to three ob-gyns who had followed him to the Valley, were all empty.
— Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024 -
The Troy venue is a stand-alone building adjacent to Somerset Collection South.
— Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 23 Aug. 2022 -
For example, a courtyard off a bedroom might focus on landscaping, while a living room-adjacent courtyard might serve as an extension of seating.
— Lia Picard, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022 -
Instead of leading to an ocean, river, or lake-adjacent beach, this seven-mile roundtrip route leads to the shore beneath the multi-tiered Panther Creek Falls.
— Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 8 Aug. 2022 -
With hooks and a long rope, the activists pulled at parts of the barbed wire adjacent to the fence.
— Fares Akram, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2018 -
The lake is adjacent to Lake Michigan in the western part of the state.
— Fox News, 20 June 2020 -
The 23 acres being offered to the town are adjacent and to the west of the 52-acre parcel.
— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 12 Oct. 2022 -
The inside of one car was pushed all the way into the adjacent seat.
— BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2021 -
The land is adjacent to the cocoa farm that the couple were set to tour.
— Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 20 Mar. 2022 -
The stand is adjacent to Gate 1, near the men’s bathroom.
— Andrea Weigl, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024 -
In an adjacent field, a tawny horse lifts its head from the grass to watch us drive by.
— Leah Sottile, Longreads, 18 May 2018 -
The seats adjacent to and in front of the restaurant area will be sold as groups, a team spokesman said.
— Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2021 -
The two fields are adjacent with back-to-back stands and a press box on top in the middle of both fields.
— Lori Riley, courant.com, 15 Nov. 2021 -
Here, the tricks to steal for your own piscine-adjacent party.
— ELLE Decor, 6 July 2018 -
There would have been a lot of Chanel and Chanel-adjacent celebrities.
— Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2020 -
So if wine-adjacent work is your life plan, this is the apartment for you.
— Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 4 July 2021 -
The homer traveled over the outfield wall and landed on the adjacent left-field berm.
— Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2024 -
And don't worry if its style doesn't flow into the adjacent room—that's what the walls are for.
— Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Jan. 2024 -
The corner lot, adjacent to a cul-de-sac, is 5,662 square feet.
— oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2021 -
The layout seemed peculiar, with the front door adjacent to the stove.
— Joyce Cohen, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017 -
The Rooms The 34 rooms and 10 suites are spread across the original château and two adjacent villas.
— Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2024 -
There will be a protest area adjacent, not anywhere far away, right in the same complex, across the street from the green zone.
— Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 28 Oct. 2022 -
Charlemagne is adjacent to church and cemetery land to the west.
— Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024 -
The victim was thrown onto the train tracks and wound up in the carpool lane of the adjacent 210 Freeway.
— Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024 -
The city official said the ship hit adjacent bridge piers, leading to the rupture of the bridge deck over the space between the piers.
— Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024 -
The area was adjacent to a closed beach where a mother monk seal was nursing her pup.
— Washington Post, 11 July 2017 -
Goats graze in the pastureland above, and bees hum in the apricot trees on the adjacent hillside.
— Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023 -
The charity ride is being beamed live across YouTube, and a TV screen adjacent to the stationary bicycle provides a minute-by-minute update of the donations coming in via the livestream.
— Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 7 Nov. 2024
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