Officers' uniforms bore a braid design on the sleeves and kepi, the number of adjacent strips (and therefore the width of the lines of the design) denoting rank.

An adjacent strip of land seemed to vanish entirely.

Omally owned two adjacent strips, having won one of them from Peg's husband at the paper shop, and old Pete had a further one.

The buildings were demolished during the construction of the new motorway with the garden of rest being re-located on an adjacent strip of allotment land.

The largest work in the show, "Flickety Oops," with 11 adjacent strips of imagery, is not much more than 3 feet square.

The Thek progressed ten meters in one direction, abruptly turned and examined the adjacent strip.

Throughout the medieval and modern periods, piecemeal enclosure took place in which adjacent strips were fenced off from the common field.

The sides of the boat are then made with 20 to 30 adjacent strips of bamboo.

Instead of subdivisions, artisanal producers of all kinds of food have sprung up in western Marin and adjacent strips of Sonoma County.

Chevreul is also linked to what is sometimes called Chevreul's illusion, the bright edges that seem to exist between adjacent strips of identical colors having different intensities.