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 on the wall were several roofless sheds.
From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)