6 sentences with 'adjacent'
Example sentences and phrases with the word adjacent and other words derived from it.
• « On January 1, 1885, many members of the Ford family went to Greenfield, a town adjacent to Dearborn, to welcome the New Year at a country inn. »
• « That afternoon, buses pulled up to the entrance of the building adjacent to the Vietnamese hostel. »
• « Also, territories were won by war or marriage, so they did not necessarily make sense on a map; many kings ruled over a patchwork of different regions that were not necessarily adjacent (i.e., they were not physically next to each other; a current example is the fact that Alaska is part of the United States but not contiguous with the "lower 48 states"). »
• « When an infection occurs, it lodges in the cells of a particular area. The adjacent capillaries spring into action, triggering the inflammatory mechanism: irrigation increases, mast cells begin their attack, (T lymphocytes and other types of white blood cells will follow) and if the infecting bacteria or virus is more powerful than the body's natural defences, the disease will run its course. »
• « This medical procedure would give me the best chance of a few more years of productive life; but it would also, inevitably, kill the healthy brain matter adjacent to the tumour. Although the latter factor - that I could not think clearly - terrified me, I did not hesitate to make the decision. »