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Example sentences for "adjoin"

Lexicographically close words:
adjacent; adjectival; adjective; adjectively; adjectives; adjoined; adjoining; adjoins; adjourn; adjourned
  1. And he, together with his subjects, guarded strictly the boundaries of the land in order that hostile Huns might not proceed from the Caucasus mountains, which adjoin their territory, through Lazica and invade the land of the Romans.

  2. I pointed out that in remote ages, the parts of the sea that adjoin the land and the parts of the land that adjoin the sea must have afforded the freest highway for movements of population.

  3. The fields separated by worm fences adjoin each other, and contain good dwelling-houses and barns.

  4. These regions have a remarkable aspect, they consist of ridges, which adjoin each other, and are of a prismatic form; the ridge above is perfectly level, and only thirty paces broad.

  5. They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpetriere.

  6. Not so in fields which adjoin his retreats.

  7. It must adjoin two public highways one of which may be an alley.

  8. A common requirement is that two sides adjoin public streets or alleys and one or both the other sides be provided with an open court allowing space for fire escapes and connections to street or alley.

  9. Though administratively distinct, the two cities so closely adjoin as virtually to form one whole.

  10. The guest-houses adjoin the entrance gateway, to which a chapel was annexed on the south side of the conventual area.

  11. The archbishop's palace and a Romanesque cloister adjoin the cathedral on its south side.

  12. When the three main courts adjoin one another the side chambers against the dividing walls are omitted.

  13. It is no more than a tube between the wall and the vaults that adjoin the wall, but it serves to give access to the round chambers hollowed out of the towers.

  14. It is also fond of the large shrubberies and copses, especially such as adjoin parks and well-timbered farm lands.

  15. On many heaths the English Partridge lives at the present time, and the harsh crow of the Pheasant is by no means an unfamiliar sound in these localities, especially when they adjoin covers.

  16. To Elymaïs adjoin the country about the Zagrus[512] and Media.

  17. Another small building must adjoin this, in which are the bellows and the man who works them.

  18. The second wall is carried further when the rooms for the cupellation furnaces, or any other building, adjoin the rooms for the blast furnaces, these buildings being only divided by a partition.

  19. Compared with the arid and inhospitable deserts which adjoin it upon the north and south, Khorasan, the ancient Parthia and Hyrcania, is a terrestrial Paradise.

  20. Hecatseus of Miletus, who was contemporary with Darius Hystaspis, made the Parthians adjoin upon the Chorasmians in the account which he gave of the geography of Asia.

  21. Marquette is the lake port and entrepot of the short range of iron mountains which adjoin their sisters, known as the Porcupine Mountains, in whose depths lies the famous copper ore, not unmixed with silver and other precious deposits.

  22. They adjoin those of Verzenay, and are almost exclusively planted with white grapes, the only instance of the kind to be met with in the district.

  23. His cellars adjoin the chateau, a picturesque but somewhat neglected structure of the last century, with sculptured medallions in high relief above the lower windows, and florid vases surmounting the mansards in the roof.

  24. Even densely peopled areas like north Kent, the Sussex coast, west Gloucestershire and east Somerset, immediately adjoin areas like the Weald of Kent and Sussex where Romano-British remains hardly occur.

  25. The Wiyot or Wishosk, who adjoin the Yurok on the south, did not practice the Jumping dance, other ceremonies, which are very little known, taking its place among them.

  26. They show much in common with their western neighbors the Pomo, and with the Maidu who adjoin them on the east and who themselves declare that they have derived the Hesi and other dances from them.

  27. Of the other southern constellations, two call for especial notice, and these adjoin each other.

  28. The inner boundary of this third and last ring does not adjoin the planet, but is everywhere separated from it by a definite space.

  29. Nay, my mind is, sith thou thy part canst play, That thou adjoin like to like alway.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adjoin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.