adjacent

In a sentence

Six example sentences with adjacent, each labelled with its topic.

• The clinic sits adjacent to the pharmacy, and a single covered walkway connects the two doors.

  Architecture

• Shoot from the adjacent rooftop instead, because that building is close enough to fill the frame with the bridge.

  Photography

• Fire jumped from the burning barn to the adjacent field, since only a narrow gravel track separated them.

  Environment

• We booked adjacent cabins on the overnight ferry, and a shared wall meant the kids could knock goodnight.

  Travel

• Playing two adjacent keys together produces a clash that composers use sparingly, often to signal tension before a resolution.

  Music

• The bug overwrote the adjacent block of memory, so a change to one user's name corrupted the next user's password.

  Technology

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains adjacent. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• initiate
• legitimate
• amend
• economical
• scheduled
• matured
• displacement
• intensity
• corporate
• pursuing
• detection
• consult