adjacent

in a sentence

I followed Sorrento off the shuttle and into an elevator adjacent to the landing pad.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

The door flew open and slammed against the adjacent wall.  (source) Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game, 1978

They climbed down into adjacent holes, and waited for the camp to fall asleep.  (source) Louis Sachar, Holes, 1998

Latecomers are directed to the adjacent streets, where they can watch the event on screens as it's televised live by the state.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

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) Moshin Hamid, Exit West, 2017

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) William Faulkner, Light in August, 1932

From adjacent streets, I could hear laughter and chatter.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

When Ender reached the corner, Alai had hooked his arms through two adjacent handholds and was pretending to doze.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

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) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

They sped off up adjacent aisles; Harry could hear the others' footsteps echoing through the towering piles of junk, of bottles, hats, crates, chairs, books, weapons, broomsticks, bats….  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007

They met at a cafe near her old building, which still stood, though most of the others close by had changed, and they sat beside one another on two adjacent sides of a small square table, under the sky, and they looked at each other, sympathetic looks, for time had done what time does, but looks of particular recognition, and they watched the young people of this city pass, young people who had no idea how bad things once were, except what they studied in history, which was perhaps as…  (source) Moshin Hamid, Exit West, 2017

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) Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook, 1996

But then the dream turned, and the four Crazies were on the adjacent ponies, poking at him, sneering.  (source) Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, 2003