| 1. | The cat, I remembered, had been hung in a garden adjacent to the house. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 2. | He gave one doubtful look at them, then hurried into an adjacent telephone box. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 3. | And the demesnes that there adjacent lie. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | of Albania, Epirus, and adjacent territory. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 5. | John flung the match into an adjacent flower bed, a proceeding which was too much for Poirot's feelings. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 6. | To the left the horizon bounded by the adjacent wood. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 7. | This puzzled the Frenchman exceedingly and, being a stranger in those parts, he called to a farmer in an adjacent field. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 8. | He pointed out to me how unlikely it was that organic evolution had taken the same direction in the two adjacent planets. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 9. | Not stumbling on the means after all, I was fain to go out to the adjacent Lodge and get the watchman there to come with his lantern. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |