Example Sentences

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The tunnel had been there since before the war, said Mohammad Doghmosh, adding that it abutted a low building.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Some of their farms even abutted the graveyard.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2023

Here in this tiny mountain community dotted with apple orchards east of Yucaipa, a flood had gutted a clapboard house that abutted a creek.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2023

The library, which abutted the street, violated that policy.

From Washington Times • Jul. 20, 2023

The city was growing in all available directions, and where it abutted the lake, it grew skyward, sharply increasing the value of land within the Loop.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson