abut
Example Sentences
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In a much lower-stakes action last weekend, the mayor of a city abutting the waterway ordered the demolition of a Chinese-built friendship park, angering Beijing’s embassy in nearby Panama City.
Her family's home is part of a suburban development that abuts a massive construction site.
From Barron's
Air samples in 2023 detected benzene concentrations more than eight times higher than the state’s short-term health limit at Hasley Canyon Park, which abuts Live Oak Elementary School, alarming local parents.
From Los Angeles Times
The teen told Williams he was going to meet friends at the dirt road abutting the store.
The tunnel had been there since before the war, said Mohammad Doghmosh, adding that it abutted a low building.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
