abutting
Example Sentences
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Abutting a closed SunTrust bank branch, the plaza was home to homeless people for years as courts considered whether it is public.
From Washington Post • May 7, 2022
Abutting the rear of the monument is a Budweiser concession stand with a sign proclaiming: “Drink smart today — celebrate tomorrow.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2018
Abutting the wall was a jumble of stones—the remains of the world’s first power mill with an inanimate energy source, and thus, arguably, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 8, 2016
Abutting Likas Bay, beyond which is the South China Sea, the boardwalk was thick with tourists and ragamuffin children on the August day I strolled along it.
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2015
Abutting Ararat on the west are stratiform hills, the strata of which are plainly distinguishable from the Persian trail and which, were their inclination continued, would strike Ararat at or near the summit.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Stevens, Thomas