How to Use adjacent in a Sentence

adjacent

adjective
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Here, the tricks to steal for your own piscine-adjacent party.
    — ELLE Decor, 6 July 2018
  • 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
  • Charlemagne is adjacent to church and cemetery land to the west.
    — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The adjacent dining area includes a wet bar with a wine fridge.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2022
  • So if wine-adjacent work is your life plan, this is the apartment for you.
    — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 4 July 2021
  • The layout seemed peculiar, with the front door adjacent to the stove.
    — Joyce Cohen, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The lake is adjacent to Lake Michigan in the western part of the state.
    — Fox News, 20 June 2020
  • The area was adjacent to a closed beach where a mother monk seal was nursing her pup.
    — Washington Post, 11 July 2017
  • The thing that is evoked so well here is the quality of feeling adjacent.
    — Laura Marsh, The New Republic, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Some had spent the night traveling to town or trying to sleep in the lot adjacent to the scaffold.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Officers saw a young girl at the house adjacent to the neighbor.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 27 July 2021
  • The eat-at island is adjacent to the living room and a glass wine cellar.
    — Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The main pool is surrounded by deck chairs and a jogging track and is adjacent to the top deck bar.
    — Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • The property is adjacent to a golf course and has mountain and ocean views.
    — Jessica Flint, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Crocker also glazed the walls in the adjacent dining room.
    — Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2018
  • The coaster models are adjacent to each of the store’s two entrances.
    — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 28 May 2021
  • But the beach was left piled with bodies, with more floating in the adjacent lagoon.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The law is pretty clear that in both cases, the adjacent landowners would win in court.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 10 June 2017
  • The living and adjacent dining area both have glass doors that open to the spacious backyard.
    — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 30 July 2020
  • Serve adjacent to your favorite bowl of soup and dunk to your heart’s content.
    — Kelsey Ogletree, Bon Appétit, 24 Feb. 2021
  • If there are other adjacent trees that provide shade for the beds, the impact will be less.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2023
  • The site is adjacent to where restaurant patrons can park.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • One of the caregivers also works on the campus of an adjacent long-term care center.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2020
  • The park boundary runs just behind it and its adjacent parking lot.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2021

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