Sentence examples for adjacent portion from inspiring English sources

The sparsely populated High Plains region, encompassing the Panhandle and a small adjacent portion of northwestern Oklahoma, offers a marked contrast.

Valois, historic region of France that gave its name to the second line of the Capetian dynasty; it corresponds to the southeastern quarter of the modern département of Oise, with an adjacent portion of Aisne.

And like the 1960 Chilean quake, the Indonesian quake increased stresses nearby: it was followed, just three months later, by an 8.7-magnitude quake on an adjacent portion of the fault zone.

It extends from the extreme southeastern portion of Andhra Pradesh into the adjacent portion of Tamil Nadu state and has a length of about 30 miles (50 km) and a width of 3 to 10 miles (5 to 16 km).

Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) revealed abnormal thickening of the gallbladder wall, which appeared to invade the adjacent portion of the liver.

Fig. 1 Pathologic findings on CT. a CT shows abnormal thickening of the gallbladder wall that appeared to invade the adjacent portion of the liver.

Far less rugged than adjacent portions of the plateau in Utah, these tablelands in Arizona consist mainly of plains interrupted by steplike escarpments.

In 1972 Kuala Lumpur was designated a municipality, and in 1974 this entity and adjacent portions of surrounding Selangor state became a federal territory.

Ordesa and Mount Perdido National Park, on the border with France, has magnificent mountain scenery and woodland; the area, including adjacent portions of France, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1997.

On the central Gulf coast and adjacent escarpment were the Totonac; in Oaxaca and adjacent portions of Puebla and Guerrero two major ethnic groups, the Mixtec and the Zapotec, shared the western and eastern portions of the area, respectively; and in Michoacán lived the Tarascan.

Pressure on these areas may cause pain to spread to adjacent portions of the head or face.  .