Example Sentences

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If data centers occupy the caverns, any improper water management or heat discharge could quickly become an immediate risk to adjoined residential neighborhoods.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2023

The Penn Museum was built on property that once adjoined the Blockley Almshouse, right between a potter’s field and Penn Medical School.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2022

So I went to my room, that adjoined Father’s, and wasted time on my phone screen, and thought how I could be doing this at home, and fell asleep.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2020

It was a 24-hour car service facility and parking structure for the theater and adjoined Pellissier Building office tower and shops.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2020

Joe’s forge adjoined our house, which was a wooden house, as many of the dwellings in our country were,—most of them, at that time.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens