abut

How To Use abut In A Sentence

• What links the eyes of these three coffins, beside the fact that all are painted, is that the inner canthus--the corner of the eye near the nose--descends abruptly and abuts the upper lid, giving them an East Asian appearance. Archive 2008-03-01
• Other herbaceous plants included Abutilon theophrasti, Cycloloma atriplicifolium, Datura stramonium and Xanthium strumarium and the planted Maclura pomifera.
• Concrete-filled cast iron cylinders and concrete abutments form the foundations.
• She veered away and, with no alternative site in view crashed into the swamp abutting the landing field.
• Our house abuts on the church.
• Many engineering construction utilize embankment, for, abutment , retaining wall , foundation pad , base backfill and so on.
• Having reached the abutments we excavated a chamber to accommodate explosives in readiness to destroy these bridges. Alan Glass
• I hear your amities abut the offload opportunity, but I think that and you position that learning equals practice narrowly defines important concepts. If you haven't practiced, you haven't learned anything
• Those hot-rodding growth funds hit the financial equivalent of a bridge abutment in 2000.
• The bus, as one earlier commenter noted, takes abut 5 hours; and the difference in comfort is enormous. Matthew Yglesias » Politico’s David Rogers Catches Republicans Lying About High-Speed Rail, Won’t Call Them Liars