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Example sentences for "abutting"

Lexicographically close words:
abut; abutment; abutments; abuts; abutted; abuv; abyd; abyde; abydeth; abyding
  1. Abutting on the south side of the apse is the Chapel of the Maccabees, so called because it formerly adjoined the cloister of the Cathedral, on whose walls was painted the Dance of Death.

  2. Abutting on the main building, which is the original structure, a kind of corbel-work gable was added over the exit from the Passage Gossart.

  3. In that case, the eleven apartments abutting to the right on the long wall of the edifice would be the stalls.

  4. It is a circus, surrounded by tiers of seats and abutting on the city ramparts.

  5. The buildings abutting east and west had also similar lamps.

  6. The house, which seemed to front the east, stood on the side of a hill, on a wide platform abutting on a deep and awful chasm, at the bottom of which chafed and foamed the Rheidol.

  7. Refreshed with my draught I proceeded briskly on my way, and in a little time saw a range of white buildings, diverging from the road on the right hand, the gable of the first abutting upon it.

  8. As every vein is a magnetic line or magnetic needle upon a large scale; so must two veins abutting against each other represent likewise a magnetic tension.

  9. The articulations or joints are external not internal; they thus consist of tegumental tubes, not of bones, abutting against each other, and are not surrounded by flesh.

  10. The wing abutting on the entrance-gate was 19th century, while the correct but heavy and dull southern facade was rebuilt in the 17th century by Archbishop Maurice Le Tellier, from the plans of Robert de Cotte.

  11. The mosque el-Aksa is a large pile of buildings abutting on the south wall of the Haram.

  12. A small Arab building abutting on the outer wall is the first thing to attract attention on the east side.

  13. Then they bend to the south-west, and, abutting upon the lower Tapajos, merge into the bluffs which form the terrace margin of that river valley.

  14. At the top, abutting on the Park, is Park Row: at No.

  15. PARK SIDE, abutting on the south side of Hyde Park, is a part of the manor of Knightsbridge, although eastward of the stream, and is the freehold of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster.

  16. Except in cities and towns, no such taxes or assessments, for local public improvements shall be imposed on abutting land owners.

  17. To resist the backward thrust of the poling-screws against the frames, each frame was held forward by two large screws, one at the top of the frame, and the other at the bottom, abutting against the brickwork of the Tunnel.

  18. The top pumps failed; the water rose above the abutting screws.

  19. After peeping through a blind, he turned pale betwixt his blueness, and galloped to the public-house abutting on the quay.

  20. A break, it is true, had occurred in the line of the cliffs, but this appeared of a very temporary character, for we could see beyond them the valley again abutting upon the ocean.

  21. In time, these gave place to rows of abutting stone buildings with tiled roofs.

  22. Their coming roused the unknown, who, invited to follow Peridol, traversed two courts without remark, and in the same silence entered a building in the extreme eastern corner of the enceinte abutting on the ruined Tour de Billy.

  23. On either side of the hall, and on either side of the portico, were apartments like those already described as abutting on the same portions of the older palace, differing from them chiefly in being larger and more numerous.

  24. To place each abutting surface in a joint as nearly as possible perpendicular to the pressure which it has to transmit.

  25. To lay out this joint mark near the ends of the edges of the abutting member, X, Fig.

  26. Place each abutting surface in a joint as nearly as possible perpendicular to the pressure which it has to transmit.

  27. The sides of the tenon and of the mortise are called "cheeks" and the "shoulders" of the tenon are the parts abutting against the mortised piece.

  28. Admiral Napier, stopping to take snuff again when we arrived at the last lamp-post at the corner abutting on Waterloo Place.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abutting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adjacent; adjoining; contiguous; near; neighboring; surrounding