How to Use noncontiguous in a Sentence

noncontiguous

adjective

• But visitors are welcome at a 305-acre noncontiguous piece several miles to the west on Lee Creek.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
• Avery owns roughly three square miles of noncontiguous parcels stretching across town.
  — J. Harry Jones, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2023
• Amid the many concerns, construction continues quickly in the San Bernardino Valley; about 6 miles of noncontiguous fencing has been completed in the area on either side of the refuge.
  — Erin Stone, azcentral, 3 Feb. 2020
• The suit argues that this should not be allowed, even when towns annex noncontiguous areas, creating islands or enclaves in districts.
  — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 23 Sep. 2023
• New York City tourism statistics show that California sends more visitors to the city than any other noncontiguous state — about one in 20 visitors in recent years.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2020
• Chief among those is his Oct. 31 executive order that called for visitors from noncontiguous states to quarantine for three days and then submit a negative test to state authorities.
  — Jesse McKinley, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2020
• Interestingly, America's only two noncontiguous states already are using testing of incoming air passengers as a way of trying to them and the states' own residents from the virus.
  — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2020
• The application targeted six noncontiguous parcels intermixed with the state trust holdings and abutting an existing mine and processing plant.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Dec. 2020
• Settlements divide the West Bank into noncontiguous fragments.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Israel’s formal annexation that is planned would leave only noncontiguous enclaves for Palestinians to inhabit in their ancestral lands, erasing all hope for a viable, independent state of their own.
  — Mary Christine Bader, Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
• Lawmakers rejected an amendment to extend the preference to a separate, noncontiguous Christina enclave serving parts of inner-city Wilmington.
  — Washington Post, 22 June 2017

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