How to Use adjacent in a Sentence

adjacent

adjective
  • 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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