How to Use adjacent in a Sentence

adjacent

adjective
  • In the adjacent dining area, a collage of art pieces makes an interesting gallery wall.
    Ann Abel, House Beautiful, 23 June 2022
  • Best of all, this show-stopping pool and its adjacent sundeck offer magnificent panoramic views.
    Megan Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The building is being developed speculatively, and is adjacent to the first phase in the project.
    Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2022
  • Jeep appeared on surveillance video from a home adjacent to the crime scene a minute after Strickland dropped Wilson off.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 16 July 2022
  • Same rules, but with a vertical dimension: Find a barn or backcountry shelter with thick rafters, or adjacent trees with very sturdy branches.
    Outside Online, 7 July 2022
  • Fire Station 90 will be adjacent to the new District 3 Youth Center.
    Hema Sivanandam, The Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The location of handsets also cannot be determined with complete accuracy based on phone signals; phones that seem to be in one neighborhood may be in an adjacent one.
    Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • In an adjacent building, Rep. Juan Vargas and his staff members gathered fire axes and flagpoles for use as weapons to defend his office.
    Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2022
  • The two properties are adjacent to an existing village recreation center that includes tennis and pickleball courts, along with a basketball court.
    Tyler O'Neil, Fox News, 11 July 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

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