- present participle of adjoin.
adjoining
Example Sentences
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The company spent £500,000 creating the pub and adjoining off-license, hiring eight additional staff members.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
At the White House, a historic rose garden conceived by Jacqueline Kennedy was paved over, and its adjoining colonnade refurbished with black granite and gilded presidential portraits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Rowbottom and Lindsey work side by side from adjoining desks in their lofted home office, a French bulldog named Jammy snoring between them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
After he used the bathroom, he saw the complainant's bed in the adjoining bedroom, lay down on the end of it "and fell straight asleep".
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
And he hurried to the House of Hwang and he met the land agent there and he said without ceremony, “I have that with which to buy the land adjoining mine by the moat.”
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
