adjoining
Americanadjective
adjective
Synonym Usage
Adjoining, adjacent, bordering all mean near or close to something. Adjoining implies touching, having a common point or line: an adjoining yard. Adjacent implies being nearby or next to something else: all the adjacent houses; adjacent angles. Bordering means having a common boundary with something: the farm bordering on the river.
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Example Sentences
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Adjoining stores sold cast iron skillets, toys and old-fashioned candies, with rocking chairs out front for waiting customers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025
Adjoining ramps at Highway 2, Marine View Drive and Pacific Avenue will also close.
From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024
Adjoining was her bedroom, with Bibi’s couch alongside her own.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Adjoining the nearby Badlands, with cattle grazing beyond the fence, a decommissioned Minuteman missile silo.
From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2021
Adjoining the den was a furnace room, which contained a tool-littered table piled with some of his other works-in- progress—an amplifying unit, an elderly wind-up Victrola that he was restoring to service.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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