How to Use adjacent in a Sentence

adjacent

adjective
  • The site is adjacent to a city park, maps show.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The space is adjacent to the indoor kitchen for ease.
    — Megan Johnson, Architectural Digest, 12 Mar. 2026
  • There was only one record store in the adjacent town.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • In an adjacent area, hundreds of chairs have been set up in rows.
    — Yamiche Alcindor, NBC news, 14 Oct. 2025
  • So if wine-adjacent work is your life plan, this is the apartment for you.
    — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 4 July 2021
  • Two of their younger brothers heard his screams from an adjacent room.
    — Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Here, the tricks to steal for your own piscine-adjacent party.
    — ELLE Decor, 6 July 2018
  • Now for your weekly food and food-adjacent news.
    — Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Want a third Williams-adjacent win?
    — Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026
  • By the time of the opening, the line had stretched around the adjacent stores in the back.
    — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The inside of one car was pushed all the way into the adjacent seat.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The land is adjacent to the cocoa farm that the couple were set to tour.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 20 Mar. 2022
  • With hooks and a long rope, the activists pulled at parts of the barbed wire adjacent to the fence.
    — Fares Akram, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Kids played baseball in an adjacent field.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The airport is adjacent to an air base used by Mali’s air force.
    — Mark Banchereau, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The airport is adjacent to an air base used by Mali's air force.
    — CBS News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The adjacent dining area includes a wet bar with a wine fridge.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The seats adjacent to and in front of the restaurant area will be sold as groups, a team spokesman said.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2021
  • There are two adjacent broods of cicadas that will be emerging at the same time.
    — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The area was adjacent to a closed beach where a mother monk seal was nursing her pup.
    — Washington Post, 11 July 2017
  • The only two adjacent seats were on the very last row, right against the bathroom.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The spa No spa, but a treatment room adjacent to the gym is in the works.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Charlemagne is adjacent to church and cemetery land to the west.
    — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The two fields are adjacent with back-to-back stands and a press box on top in the middle of both fields.
    — Lori Riley, courant.com, 15 Nov. 2021
  • And don't worry if its style doesn't flow into the adjacent room—that's what the walls are for.
    — Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The twins sit on adjacent black couches in front of a TV.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The family room, too, is adjacent to the kitchen.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The eat-at island is adjacent to the living room and a glass wine cellar.
    — Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019
  • There’s some concern about areas adjacent to the ditch.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The thing that is evoked so well here is the quality of feeling adjacent.
    — Laura Marsh, The New Republic, 12 Feb. 2020

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