Sample Sentences for
adjacent
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    They climbed down into adjacent holes, and waited for the camp to fall asleep.  (source)
    adjacent = nearby (close to each other)
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    The Firefly universe was anchored in a sector adjacent to the Star Wars galaxy,  (source)
    adjacent = next to
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    The door flew open and slammed against the adjacent wall.  (source)
    adjacent = nearby
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    Roaring, the house collapsed; fire gushed everywhere, followed by a flurry of blankets from men on top of the adjacent houses, beating out sparks and burning chunks of wood.  (source)
    adjacent = nearby
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    Soon a rhythm was established, and it was thereafter rare that more than a few waking hours would pass without contact between them, and they found themselves in those early days of their romance growing hungry, touching each other, but without bodily adjacency, without release.  (source)
    adjacency = the quality of being very near to something
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    Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled cold echoing building of dark red brick sootbleakened by more chimneys than its own, set in a grassless cinderstrewnpacked compound surrounded by smoking factory purlieus and enclosed by a ten foot steel-and-wire fence like a penitentiary or a zoo, where in random erratic surges, with sparrowlike childtrebling, orphans in identical and uniform blue denim in and out of remembering but in knowing constant as the bleak walls, the bleak windows where in rain soot from the yearly adjacenting chimneys streaked like black tears.†  (source)
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    Latecomers are directed to the adjacent streets, where they can watch the event on screens as it's televised live by the state.  (source)
    adjacent = nearby
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    From adjacent streets, I could hear laughter and chatter.  (source)
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    He strode off to the adjacent room, where I could hear him talking on the phone.  (source)
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    The largest bell of the adjacent Cathedral resounded in the immense empty space of the house.  (source)
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    When Ender reached the corner, Alai had hooked his arms through two adjacent handholds and was pretending to doze.  (source)
    adjacent = side-by-side (very near each other)
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    This building had once been a single house, but it was constructed adjacent to a market that had subsequently grown past and around it.  (source)
    adjacent = next to
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    The home sat on twelve acres adjacent to Brices Creek, and he'd worked on the wooden fence that lined the other three sides of the property, checking for dry rot or termites,replacing posts when he had to.  (source)
    adjacent = nearby
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