adjoin
verb (used with object)
to be close to or in contact with; abut on.
was adjoining
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past progressiveof adjoin.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Her bedroom was adjoining, and across a small passage were the dining room and kitchen.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
Her bedroom was adjoining, and across a small passage were the dining-room and kitchen.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
Her room was adjoining this lady’s, who told me she heard the mother crying: “O God, give me strength for the hour; help me now.”
From To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians by Dwight Lyman Moody
Her bedroom was adjoining, and across a small passage were the diningroom and kitchen.
From The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin
He carried us through a small nursery of fruit-trees, which I had not before observed, though it was adjoining the ladies' flower-garden, from which it was separated and concealed by a row of tall trees.
From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More
