adjoin
verb (used with object)
to be close to or in contact with; abut on.
are adjoining
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present progressiveof adjoin.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Sound Transit train stations are well-salted, as are adjoining bus lanes, but for locals who walk home outside SeaTac/Airport Station, the sidewalks of International Boulevard Southwest offered gray slush.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
But Church makes it plain that these are adjoining concerns.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
Zhuhai and Macau are adjoining areas on the mainland due west of Hong Kong.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2018
Lands are adjacent to a house or town; fields are adjoining to each other; and houses contiguous to each other.
From Public Speaking by Clarence Stratton
You may start from any of the H's and go backwards or forwards and in any direction, so long as all the letters in a spelling are adjoining one another.
From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
