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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)
  • He strode off to the adjacent room, where I could hear him talking on the phone.   (source)
    adjacent = nearby
  • The largest bell of the adjacent Cathedral resounded in the immense empty space of the house.   (source)
  • 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
  • We are adjacent to a huge grassy lot.   (source)
    adjacent = nearby
  • Please join us in a few minutes, at one o'clock, when Jenny will perform her newest single, 'Becalmed,' in the Kopf's Cafe, located adjacent to the men's department.   (source)
    adjacent = near (probably right beside)
  • Grasping for support at anything he could reach, Yossarian limped along after him into the corridor and down the adjacent ward to a bed containing a harried young man with pimples and a receding chin.   (source)
    adjacent = nearby
  • Before Roger Chillingworth could answer, they heard the clear, wild laughter of a young child's voice, proceeding from the adjacent burial-ground.   (source)
  • As soon as morning dawned I crept from my kennel, that I might view the adjacent cottage and discover if I could remain in the habitation I had found.   (source)
  • He's content to stay silent, while another cop questions Roland in an adjacent room.†   (source)
  • Though the surviving records of the informant's report contain no details of Sasaki's alleged activities, according to notes made later by a captain of the Torrance police, Sasaki had been making visits to a field adjacent to a power station, just off of Torrance Boulevard.†   (source)
  • Denuded mountains are visible to the west, towering sternly above the rooftops of adjacent double-wides.†   (source)
  • Dancing went briskly forward as well in the two adjacent garden-bowers, each loaded with blossom, while a jazz orchestra in each ballroom kept up the "symphony and song.†   (source)
  • Edgar kept working on the bottom drawer of the adjacent file, turning and heaving papers.†   (source)
  • First, he tried the door of the adjacent room.†   (source)
  • Bernard's parents lived on McMechen Street, which ran adjacent to McCulloh.†   (source)
  • I followed Sorrento off the shuttle and into an elevator adjacent to the landing pad.†   (source)
  • Following the brass line closer to the obelisk, he knocked on each tile adjacent to the brass line.†   (source)
  • Another of Lawton's forebears, Spencer Shotter, amassed a fortune in the naval-stores business at the turn of the century and built one of the most grandiose estates in the South on the grounds of Greenwich Plantation, immediately adjacent to Bonaventure Cemetery.†   (source)
  • In late 1943, Schindler cajoled and bribed Goeth and other SS leaders for permission to build a sub-camp on the property adjacent to Emalia.†   (source)
  • Two years later, John Cook purchased, again for a good price, eighty more acres of swampy ground adjacent to the Davises.†   (source)
  • In order to get to the escape route, we had to cross a wet and muddy swamp that was adjacent to a tiny hill.†   (source)
  • He must be on an adjacent block with a good vantage point—a high floor.†   (source)
  • I remember her at my mother's funeral; she didn't sit with her son Harry, where Mr. Chickering had gathered the team in adjacent pews.†   (source)
  • An adjacent shop under the same Gujarati ownership sold sweets and spices, and rented Hindi movies on cassettes.†   (source)
  • He points to a massive American Philco in the adjacent room.†   (source)
  • She was sent with forceps and a kidney bowl to an adjacent ward, to the bedside of an airman with shrapnel in his leg.†   (source)
  • Lewis sat in the adjacent seat while Vogel and Martinez hovered nearby.†   (source)
  • Creeping mold had turned window-adjacent walls black and furry.†   (source)
  • The classrooms were adjacent; we walked toward them together, the three of us in a row, trusting that the tide of classmates would part enough to let us by, and it did.†   (source)
  • As the others started after him he was brought up short by a Kill-O-Zap energy bolt that cracked through the air inches in front of him and fried a small section of adjacent wall.†   (source)
  • Our bedroom windows are adjacent to each other, which has proven to be extremely convenient.†   (source)
  • Outside, a blustery wind blew smoke from the adjacent buildings into their faces.†   (source)
  • At the far border are two adjacent lakes separated by a narrow strip of land leading into the forest beyond them.†   (source)
  • A middle-aged man in knife-edge whites took his message up three decks to the Marconi room adjacent to the officer's promenade.†   (source)
  • Nasser's home, in the Broadmoor neighborhood adjacent to Uptown, had been flooded, and he'd come to the student association for shelter, knowing it was on higher ground.†   (source)
  • They meet in an open lane between two adjacent jets.†   (source)
  • Yuk Yuk yanked the man down on the floor, and walked into the adjacent room where presumably the safe was stashed.†   (source)
  • Ellerby, Brittain, and I lead circle patterns in adjacent lanes so we can see each other—another stroke of Lemry's genius which seems to keep our competitive juices flowing.†   (source)
  • I walked into my office on Monday to find Murray sitting in the chair adjacent to the desk, like someone waiting for a nurse to arrive with a blood-pressure gauge.†   (source)
  • Flies buzz over the adjacent bed of ivy and around the buckets that dangle from his shopping cart, and traffic is a broken roar, whoosh, whoosh, rumble.†   (source)
  • The light on the print comes from a miserable cramped window in the adjacent wall through which he looked out onto and across the valley onto the Madison Range and watched the storms come in and while watching this valley before me now through this window here, now —started the whole thing, the whole madness, right here!†   (source)
  • Her mother had hung woolen army blankets to divide the Imadas' cramped room in half and had given them, on their wedding night, two cots adjacent to the stove.†   (source)
  • I could hear an old man reading a magazine article aloud in an adjacent room.†   (source)
  • His room was adjacent to a piece of thickly planted ground, reforested by him.†   (source)
  • They shared their food, they slept in adjacent bunks in the top row.†   (source)
  • As Mr. Clutter contemplated this superior specimen of the season, he was joined by a part-collie mongrel, and together they ambled off toward the livestock corral, which was adjacent to one of three barns on the premises.†   (source)
  • He let himself into the inner sanctum of the police station with his keys and jogged up the stairs to the booking room with its adjacent lockup.†   (source)
  • The room reeked of mildew, and a sick, sour stench wafted in through a window that opened onto an adjacent Persian-style bathroom, but it was an improvement over the airport facilities.†   (source)
  • I looked to my left and in an adjacent car saw Colonel Spengler, the chief of the Witwatersrand Security Branch.†   (source)
  • There had been fingerprints all over the house, and a fingerprint team, also from Augusta, had taken a number of sets from the living quarters adjacent to the small stripping shop where Steven Kemp had worked until recently.†   (source)
  • On an adjacent wall there was a framed print of a bald eagle and an American flag floating majestically in the heavens against an ominous cloudscape.†   (source)
  • The thought made Norah smile, and the man who was sitting at an adjacent table, dressed in a white suit, a tiny aperitif glass by his hand, smiled back.†   (source)
  • With a simple command a copy of the list was made on the adjacent printer.†   (source)
  • That evening, Casanova stayed in the tower while I snuck over to the edge of the Pakistani compound and looked over the wall at the adjacent Save the Children house.†   (source)
  • There was an outdoor tiled eating area in an adjacent courtyard.†   (source)
  • The most recent intelligence confirmed that "James" planned to attack a U.S. Army battalion preparing to relocate from its current position adjacent to the Pech River Valley.†   (source)
  • "But the site the elders of Shigar Valley chose for the Ned Gillette School was not only near the pass where he was murdered, it was adjacent to Chutran, mullah Agha Mubarek's village.†   (source)
  • Maybe I grabbed him while Poundcake was moving Megan into the adjacent room.†   (source)
  • Suddenly I notice, in the adjacent room, the sound of a shower.†   (source)
  • They must surely have focused on their landing beach, stamped "GREEN BEACH," adjacent to Mount Suribachi.†   (source)
  • They expanded into the adjacent flat, and it has a door that opens onto an alleyway.†   (source)
  • It seemed a doomed house, stranded here among the numerous small wooden houses, its high empty windows looking out on what must have been a dismal clutter of low roofs, a comer grocery, and a small adjacent bar… But the broad, dark grounds protected the house somewhat from these things, and I had to move along the fence quite a few feet before I finally spotted a faint glimmer in one of the lower windows through the thick branches of the trees.†   (source)
  • They spent the rest of the night boring a hole in the wall of the room adjacent to the arsenal, which they hid with a large wardrobe on one side and on the other with the forbidden boxes themselves.†   (source)
  • Then I followed exactly what she had done and wrote on the flesh adjacent to her right hip bone.†   (source)
  • There were more than fifty acres of exquisitely landscaped woodland gardens adjacent to the Duke University Medical Center, literally miles of allees.†   (source)
  • From the corner of his eye, he sees Mr. Taylor move from the adjacent lab area into the connecting doorway, eavesdropping.†   (source)
  • Henry hit the wall of an adjacent building hard, falling in a heap, as if the force had wounded him terribly.†   (source)
  • Indeed, it appeared as if two or perhaps three adjacent ribs were missing.†   (source)
  • But now the reporters interrogate me and the band separately, as though they're cops and they have me and my accomplices in adjacent cells and are trying to get us to implicate one another.†   (source)
  • They were seated in the cafe adjacent to the atrium where Raison Pharmaceutical would make its grand announcement as soon as the entourage arrived.†   (source)
  • And the Rinds family had the adjacent property?†   (source)
  • Satisfied that their friend was not going to die, the boys jumped on the adjacent empty bed and banged on bedpans, trying to raise Beto's spirits.†   (source)
  • At six forty-five, Hall was in the washroom adjacent to OR 7, scrubbing for his first case of the day.†   (source)
  • By noon a fully equipped army of 15,000 men and forty pieces of artillery had landed and rapidly, smoothly assembled in perfect formation on the adjacent plain.†   (source)
  • The resort complex of Tranquility Inn had seemingly been cut out of three adjacent rock-strewn hills above an elongated beach sandwiched between huge natural jetties of coral.†   (source)
  • Salander first took a look at the stairwell and at dusk made two cautious circuits of the adjacent buildings.†   (source)
  • They flowed from adjacent folds of the mountain front and in their first half mile they looked like twins.†   (source)
  • The busy service station and the adjacent twenty-four-hour convenience store were three blocks from his motel.†   (source)
  • "We need to move to the adjacent building," Jon said.†   (source)
  • Etta got out of the car unassisted and didn't bother to turn and watch the taillights as it pulled off down the deserted avenue adjacent to Brewster Place.†   (source)
  • The next night some archers desperate for warmth somehow managed to set their tent afire, which had at least the virtue of heating the adjacent tents.†   (source)
  • There was a dressing room adjacent to a communal shower, and there was a lot of steam.†   (source)
  • Normally, the First Family would stay in the house they own adjacent to the compound property.†   (source)
  • He points to the adjacent wall.†   (source)
  • They were not going to let me know if they lived in a house adjacent to the lane, but I had no time to find out.†   (source)
  • I decided to invite her to inspect the more extensive garden behind the house, and she was plainly happy to follow me there, to walk among the perennials that I'd recently planted in what used to be a small croquet lawn, adjacent to the pool.†   (source)
  • If Alessandro cut the rope the body would be smashed against the ledges and might disappear in the river that ran adjacent to the base of the cliff.†   (source)
  • They probably would encourage the leaders of adjacent States to join them.†   (source)
  • The drow's numbing body begged him to start down the mountain, and yet he was moving farther along the high face, to one of the adjacent peaks.†   (source)
  • Authority started test drills and resonance exploration in a cubic adjacent to L.City which could be converted into a warren.†   (source)
  • Mansour's two bodyguards were picking at a bowl of pistachios at an adjacent table.†   (source)
  • Rashaverak's arrival made matters a good deal worse, because everyone in the adjacent rooms came running in to see him.†   (source)
  • We passed along its center aisle and out the door at its far end, where we crossed the narrow breezeway that separated it from the adjacent building.†   (source)
  • I scale an adjacent tree, locate the jabberjay, and take it out with an arrow.†   (source)
  • " I still can't see him, but his voice seems to rise up from an adjacent bed of red roses.†   (source)
  • A moment later, the lights went out in the adjacent quarter.†   (source)
  • Now he climbed the steps of the adjacent Union Trust Company Bank.†   (source)
  • It stood on the banks of the Tiber River diagonally adjacent to the Vatican.†   (source)
  • The cab driver said it's adjacent to the Roland Garros tennis stadium.†   (source)
  • When I'm done, the bedroom will be two adjacent hexes with walls around them and a crude ceiling.†   (source)
  • About this time we hear the sound of clicks rising from the sector adjacent to us.†   (source)
  • I can already hear soldiers' boots in the corridors adjacent to ours, pounding on the floor.†   (source)
  • It is adjacent to Parliament and Big Ben.†   (source)
  • The four points only formed a diamond because Langdon had connected adjacent points.†   (source)
  • Undeterred, Cody secured rights to a large parcel of land adjacent to the park.†   (source)
  • Chamberlin told Holmes to wait in an adjacent room.†   (source)
  • Langdon looked up to see a Swiss Guard hurrying across an adjacent lawn toward the front door.†   (source)
  • As any engineer knew, soil under pressure tended to shift to fill adjacent excavations.†   (source)
  • Kayak thrilled the crowds by galloping around his adjacent paddock in all his black splendor.†   (source)
  • By evening the soldiers had set up camp in a field adjacent to the village.†   (source)
  • Down there in a dim storage room adjacent to the furnace I've set up a realm of ersatz squalor.†   (source)
  • He did not ring it, but pressed the adjacent four buttons.†   (source)
  • At night the adjacent rooms filled up with other squatters.†   (source)
  • I go to the sink, drawing a horrified stare from the freshman standing adjacent.†   (source)
  • Twenty minutes later the chopper set down on the lawn adjacent to Genetrix Laboratories.†   (source)
  • What he wants, he tells the flustered desk clerk, is a simple bedroom with an adjacent sitting room.†   (source)
  • A game between two older girls' teams was winding up on an adjacent field.†   (source)
  • Listening, he could hear Mrs. Richardson's telephone ringing in the adjacent office.†   (source)
  • The work had spread to the inside of the adjacent abandoned barracks.†   (source)
  • Rounding the back of the truck he raced into the space between it and the adjacent car.†   (source)
  • [then] forming upon the adjacent plain….†   (source)
  • The river [is] in front, [New] Jersey and the adjacent country on the other side.†   (source)
  • This pilot immolated himself against the USS Bismarck Sea, adjacent to the Lawrence Taylor.†   (source)
  • Conklin turned to a stocky man six feet away at an adjacent window.†   (source)
  • The food freezer is located adjacent to the lower missile deck forward.†   (source)
  • Every captain has maps of their own lands in the Archipelago, as well as of adjacent islands.†   (source)
  • One wall was glass, allowing the workers to look into the adjacent room.†   (source)
  • As he reached the shadows of the deserted lot adjacent to the Jackal's house, another door opened.†   (source)
  • In time, we ended up under the trellis adjacent to the garden.†   (source)
  • There was another room adjacent to the kitchen.†   (source)
  • He bounced on the balls of his feet twice and threw himself at the wall adjacent Carlos, feetfirst.†   (source)
  • Almost every week, we watched films on a sheet in a large room adjacent to our corridor.†   (source)
  • They held back the fence and Ismael edged through, jump-stepping to the roof that was adjacent.†   (source)
  • Reza and Essey's "suite," adjacent to our room, was no better.†   (source)
  • She's still uncertain until Rob opens the door on the adjacent hall and slips out.†   (source)
  • Our toilets and showers were adjacent to the isolation section.†   (source)
  • One jet of steam demolished the adjacent reactor-control wiring conduits.†   (source)
  • Chief of Staff Ron Kreet ushered Thomas into a small sitting room adjacent to the Oval Office.†   (source)
  • He heard no screams from the adjacent neighborhood as debris slammed down on the houses.†   (source)
  • Jason climbed the steps of an adjacent residence, Villiers! door no more than twenty feet away.†   (source)
  • Through whispered conversations in an adjacent hallway we learned firsthand what had taken place.†   (source)
  • Jones pressed a key to generate a copy on the adjacent matrix printer.†   (source)
  • From one of the adjacent brownstones, a middle-aged couple were saying loud goodbyes to their hosts.†   (source)
  • For an hour we lay wrapped in sheets on adjacent slabs, sweating it out and restoring the tissues.†   (source)
  • The adults must have deduced this already, from his long stick and the way he's tied his sheet: he's gone on journeys before, or that's what he's called his looting forays into the trailer parks and adjacent pleeblands.†   (source)
  • The last village they passed sat adjacent to a poppy field, where an old man working the pods waved at them.†   (source)
  • C#89 CHAPTER 89 Cathedral College is an elegant, castlelike edifice located adjacent to the National Cathedral.†   (source)
  • The Office of the Swiss Guard is housed adjacent to Il Corpo di Vigilanza, directly northeast of St. Peter's Basilica.†   (source)
  • Miss Lydia places him on a tongue-coloured settee, then fetches a heavy book from the adjacent table and arranges herself beside him.†   (source)
  • As I sipped sweet tea and fidgeted, his Holiness rooted around in an adjacent cabinet, brought out a large, ornately decorated book, and handed it to me.†   (source)
  • The courtyard is about forty feet square, with terraced benches on one side, a couple of picnic tables, and a steady flow of people moving in and out of the adjacent building or coming in off the street in search of food, bathrooms and company.†   (source)
  • After grabbing $438,000 worth of watches and jewels from the store, one of the robbers yelled "Let's go," and the four ran out to the adjacent parking lot, where a 1984 Oldsmobile Delta 88 and 1987 Mercury Grand Marquis waited for them.†   (source)
  • Too exhausted to cope with the complexities of the rpoe work, Fischer slid p p directly down an adjacent snow slope on his butt.†   (source)
  • It had been a cold night, and in the adjacent room a baby screamed behind a quarter-inch wall of pine board.†   (source)
  • Our house had a few shade trees close to it, but my father's house was stationed proudly up a little rise, four or five feet, but the only rise in the area, adjacent to an equally proud stand of ornamental evergreens that looked nice but did nothing for the heat.†   (source)
  • The car that kept Owen from parking his truck in the circular driveway adjacent to the Main Academy Building was Dr. Dolder's Volkswagen Beetle.†   (source)
  • C#74 CHAPTER 74 The Jungle, as it is known, is the centerpiece of the U.S. Botanic Garden (USBG)—America's living museum—located adjacent to the U.S. Capitol Building.†   (source)
  • He moved away impatiently to the adjacent wall, a distance of seven feet or so, and leaned against it, arms crossed, looking from Briony to Cecilia.†   (source)
  • With money from black market dealings, he bought a piece of land adjacent to his Emalia factory, built the barracks, and persuaded Commandant Goeth with smooth talk and substantial amounts of money that having his workers nearby would increase productivity.†   (source)
  • He drops silently to the ground, makes his way carefully around a couple of adjacent planes, stopping every few feet to listen, and finally sees it: one of his soldiers has been pinned to the aluminum fuselage of a Learjet by means of a long wooden pole.†   (source)
  • Seventeen-year-old John—whose girlfriend was pregnant with his infant daughter—succumbed to a shotgun blast in his living room as his younger brother watched from beneath a bed in an adjacent room.†   (source)
  • So they regrouped all of their forces around ten adjacent instances of the Zork playing field near the planet's south pole.†   (source)
  • I ran all the way back to the office and found a bunch of thumbtacks in a desk adjacent to Margo's, before Radar and I carefully carried the unfurled map back to Margo's room.†   (source)
  • I know that can't be true, but when I steal across several lawns to an adjacent alley two blocks away and creep into the intersection only to find the car waiting, I'm rattled.†   (source)
  • The stream caught the surprised bird broadside in the breast, and while it struggled to escape from the force of the water its head smashed against the gunnel of the Channel Star, which was moored in the adjacent berth.†   (source)
  • And then there were the more intimate gatherings that took place in the two private dining rooms adjacent to the Boyarsky: the Yellow and Red Rooms.†   (source)
  • A massive pyramid-shaped structure covering several square kilometers at its base, it towered above most of the structures adjacent to it.†   (source)
  • Adjacent to the stone slab on which she was strapped, there stood a small side counter that instantly reminded her of an instrument table from a hospital operating room.†   (source)
  • The nearly constant hurricane blowing through the Col in early spring explains why it remains as naked rock and ice even when deep snow blankets adjacent slopes: everything not frozen in place here has been blasted into Tibet.†   (source)
  • For weeks after his demise, his vestments and his cane hung from the coat tree in the vestry office—as if old Mr. Scammon had journeyed no farther from this world than to the adjacent toilet.†   (source)
  • I've barely walked out of an adjacent alley and am heading toward this bar's side door when I feel something fly right past my shoulder.†   (source)
  • The Depperts lived in the bedroom adjacent to hers, and the Millers occupied the large master bedroom at the end of the hall.†   (source)
  • Immediately adjacent to the mortuary itself was an ice-cream shop; adjoined to the chapel was a pet shop—the windowfront displayed an arrangement of snakes, which were on sale.†   (source)
  • King's College, established by King George IV in 1829, houses its Department of Theology and Religious Studies adjacent to Parliament on property granted by the Crown.†   (source)
  • It had an altogether bleak, reformatory atmosphere; its life was punctuated by the sounds of an adjacent gas station—the bell that announced the arriving and departing vehicles, the accounting of the gas pumps themselves, and the multifarious din from the mechanics laboring in the pits.†   (source)
  • All their doors remained simple doors, on/off switches in the flow between two adjacent places, binarily either open or closed, but each of their doors, regarded thus with a twinge of irrational possibility, became partially animate as well, an object with a subtle power to mock, to mock the desires of those who desired to go far away, whispering silently from its door frame that such dreams were the dreams of fools.†   (source)
  • As Langdon loaded his slide projector, he explained that the number PHI was derived from the Fibonacci sequence—a progression famous not only because the sum of adjacent terms equaled the next term, but because the quotients of adjacent terms possessed the astonishing property of approaching the number 1.†   (source)
  • As if reading Langdon's mind, Vittoria moved across the aisle and began scanning the adjacent bay of vaults, doubling their pace.†   (source)
  • There was a small empty space below the entertainment module, between the prefab wall of my hab-unit and the one adjacent to it.†   (source)
  • Of special concern was the fact that the buildings would be sited adjacent to newly dug canals and lagoons.†   (source)
  • The Swiss Guard "staging room" is located adjacent to the Corpo di Vigilanza barracks and is used primarily for planning the security surrounding papal appearances and public Vatican events.†   (source)
  • I ascended the narrow access ladder mounted between the adjacent rows of capsules, then stepped onto the short platform beneath the hatch to my unit.†   (source)
  • Distractedly, he asked Anna if she would mind going into the adjacent room, the walk-in vault, to retrieve for him a document he had left inside.†   (source)
  • The stack containing my aunt's trailer had collapsed into a fiery, smoking ruin, along with all of the stacks adjacent to it.†   (source)
  • The riders watched as the wind gripped the adjacent captive balloon and tore it from the men holding it down and briefly yanked Manager Morgan into the sky.†   (source)
  • The Firefly universe was anchored in a sector adjacent to the Star Wars galaxy, with a detailed re-creation of the Star Trek universe in the sector adjacent to that.†   (source)
  • From railings in front of the boxes hung triangles of silk embroidered with gold arabesques, all glowing with the light of adjacent incandescent bulbs.†   (source)
  • Pangalos had secured choice ground at the middle of the Midway, adjacent to the Ferris Wheel, in a Muslim diaspora that included a Persian concession, a Moorish palace, and Sol Bloom's Algerian Village, where Bloom had converted the Algerians' premature arrival into a financial windfall.†   (source)
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