How to Use contiguity in a Sentence

contiguity

noun

• The West Bank is like an archipelago, in terms of contiguity and services.
  — Alice Su, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2013
• So the temporal-contiguity effect was confirmed in the first dataset.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2018
• From its earliest episodes, Orange has used the art of contiguity—placing certain scenes next to each other—to make explicit points.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 31 July 2019
• Martin said the rules on contiguity should be re-examined and that councilmanic districts should stay as close as possible to school districts.
  — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 7 July 2021
• And yet the Sudanese and Ethiopian refugees aren’t bound by much beyond geographical contiguity, with plenty of differences that could divide them.
  — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2021
• Most states have rules regarding the contiguity of districts and their compactness, and to ensure that political boundary lines and neighborhoods remain in the same district.
  — Gabriel T. Rubin, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2021
• The settlement would deny territorial contiguity to parts of East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians want to make their capital.
  — Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2020
• State lawyers contend that Democrats have no legal right to bring the challenge and that the maps are in compliance with traditional redistricting principles such as compactness and contiguity.
  — CNN, 2 Sep. 2017
• The process instead is based on 2020 census data, collective input from people throughout the county of San Diego, and apolitical criteria such as contiguity and compactness of districts.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2021
• The legislature must immediately start drawing new maps, the court said, demanding that they be drawn based on criteria like population, contiguity, and county lines.
  — Jane C. Timm, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Residents in each city will help set the boundaries based primarily on equal population, common interests and contiguity.
  — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 May 2017
• Since the 1980s, the group’s writings have emphasized the heterogeneity of Caribbean history, the fundamental contiguity of life and literature with ecology, and a tradition of oral storytelling that has become the touchstone of Chamoiseau’s oeuvre.
  — New York Times, 27 June 2018
• Many other features of space, besides its contiguity, may also reflect entanglement.
  — George Musser, Scientific American, 1 June 2018
• In adopting new district boundaries for Congress and the statehouse, the commission takes into account population, contiguity and compactness, local jurisdictions and communities of interest.
  — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2022
• Instead, criteria included factors such as population equality and district contiguity, as well as some past election results and an effort to protect incumbent officeholders.
  — Scott Calvert, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2017
• By law the commission had to consider such factors as population, contiguity, compactness, local jurisdictions and communities of interest.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021
• Alabama law requires contiguity as a prerequisite for incorporation.
  — al, 3 July 2021

Last Updated: 27 Aug 2024