contiguous to

Example Sentences

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And could states not physically contiguous to Pakistan or India choose to join either?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

He said he could not “renounce” the “10 million Germans” living in regions contiguous to Germany.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2021

—If the Curtis Cup women were directed to the adjacent hotel, it should be remembered that Greywalls, one of the finest hotels in Scotland, is contiguous to the Muirfield clubhouse.

From Golf Digest • May 5, 2020

Sure, Vancouver can be seen as culturally contiguous to other coastal urban zones that celebrate individual expression: the Castro district in San Francisco, Echo Park in Los Angeles, Portlandia, etc.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2017

In the case of where herons live, most readers know that the northern United States is contiguous to Canada and that the two have similar ecosystems, so they don’t need a similarly.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker