All 7 Uses of
adjacent
in
A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Tariq was sitting at the board too, in turns watching the match, then listening in on the political chat at the adjacent table.
p. 165..2adjacent = nearby (close to each other)
- She found him three houses down the street, leaning against the wall at the entrance of a narrow-mouthed alley between two adjacent houses.
p. 168..1adjacent = side-by-side (near each other)
- They sat on the bench adjacent to Wakil and his family's.
p. 261..9adjacent = next to
- The fire took the adjacent fabric store as well, a secondhand clothing store, a small furniture shop, a bakery.
p. 304..2adjacent = next door (right beside)
- ...a plane appears from the corner of the screen. It crashes into the adjacent tower, exploding into a fireball that dwarfs any ball of fire that Laila has ever seen.
p. 384..2 *adjacent = nearby
- It was Tariq and Zaman who built the classroom by knocking down the wall between two adjacent rooms.
p. 413..1adjacent = side-by-side
- The children are taking their seats, flipping notebooks open, chattering-Aziza is talking to a girl in the adjacent row.
p. 413..8adjacent = next
Definition:
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(adjacent) very near -- often directly beside