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Example sentences for "neighborhood"

Lexicographically close words:
neige; neiges; neigh; neighbor; neighbored; neighborhoods; neighboring; neighborliness; neighborly; neighbors
  1. In the neighborhood there lived a female sub-agent called Meg, as base and unprincipled as himself.

  2. You know everybody in the neighborhood calls me Aunt Nancy, and Rhody she picked it up as natral as could be.

  3. Are you aware that the son of Winnebeg has never entered the fort nor been even in the neighborhood since the night of that marriage?

  4. It was with this intention, therefore, that Felix entered the building where the justice of that neighborhood was customarily dispensed.

  5. I was extremely pleased, as we rid along, to observe the general benevolence of all the neighborhood towards my friend.

  6. They met few people abroad, even on passing from the retired neighborhood of the House of the Seven Gables into what was ordinarily the more thronged and busier portion of the town.

  7. A name given to certain ascetics said to have anciently dwelt in the neighborhood of Alexandria.

  8. The shops at which the best families of the neighborhood bought grocery and millinery.

  9. Specifically, neighborhood to the person of one of superior of exalted rank; also, presence chamber.

  10. A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.

  11. One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen.

  12. The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns.

  13. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere.

  14. Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished.

  15. A very good locality, perhaps too good, for rents in that neighborhood are rather high.

  16. Formerly the nobles of England prided themselves in having a rookery[320] in the neighborhood of their castles, because rooks were regarded as "fowls of good omen.

  17. It was the common opinion in his day that plants were affected by the neighborhood of other plants to such an extent that they imbibed each others virtues and faults.

  18. If any person in the neighborhood died, they supposed it could not be otherwise, for the night-raven had foretold it; but if nobody happened to die, the death of a cow or a sheep gave completion to the prophecy.

  19. We furthermore agree to share the expenses equally in punishing those who injure their citizens in the neighborhood of their city and those who injure our citizens in the neighborhood of our city.

  20. Probably those who lived in the same neighborhood or village were regarded as forming a society or group for administrative purposes.

  21. The king [Frederick] advanced with his army to the neighborhood of Sutri and encamped in Campo Grasso.

  22. Happy for me will be the day when you see my enemy (if that day ever comes); the bird will warn you of his neighborhood by pecking your hand.

  23. Its site was the neighborhood of what is now the intersection of Varick and Charlton streets.

  24. Thereupon I offered him mine, saying that it might be a pleasure to occupy it since several of his professional acquaintances were seated in the neighborhood who would be glad to greet him.

  25. It is in the neighborhood of three hundred kilometers from Kep to Pnom-Penh, the capital of Cambodia, and for nearly the entire distance the highway has been hewn through the most savage jungle you can imagine.

  26. A good working elephant is a valuable piece of property, being worth in the neighborhood of $2,500.

  27. I begged him not to start a neighborhood feud, even if we never slept after dawn.

  28. Our Sabine Farm was surrounded by others and there was a neighborhood hymn to the dawn that it took us some time to really enjoy--if we ever did.

  29. He usually managed to give the vines in my neighborhood extra attention--like Garibaldi, he was a confirmed pruner.

  30. Astronomers refer to the Sun as "he" and "him" and they spell his name with a capital letter, to show that he occupies the center of our small neighborhood of the universe at all times.

  31. There is a duplicate in the neighborhood bought at second-hand, for $125.

  32. In regard to its bountiful water supply, the neighborhood had much in common with all the states east of the Mississippi, along the Atlantic seaboard, in the lake region of the central west, and in the Pacific States.

  33. Illustration: Measuring a small stream with a weir] In your neighborhood there is a creek three or four feet wide, toiling along day by day, at its task of watering your fields.

  34. With this difference; the water courses in his neighborhood had once been of economic importance.

  35. The neighborhood will commend the funeral handsomely performed.

  36. The school house in the neighborhood was broken open, books destroyed and other vandal acts committed.

  37. I well remember once when the neighborhood was thrown into a turmoil of excitement.

  38. Soon the war itself was being fought in the neighborhood of her home.

  39. Lincoln was one of the first to offer his services, and although still very young, every man in the neighborhood urged that he be made the captain of the military company in which they were to serve.

  40. In the neighborhood of this deep strait that runs between Nova Scotia proper and the Island of Cape Breton, Paul Jones captured twelve fishing vessels.

  41. Here Florence conceived a love for nursing and used to tend sick animals in the neighborhood and when she grew older, to sit up with and cheer the sick among the cottagers.

  42. It is the one great piece of neighborhood history since the Indians left.

  43. He was of enormous size, and gloried in the fact that he was the neighborhood bully and very, very "tough.

  44. The neighborhood gossips and prophets freely predicted that Rita would marry Williams, in which case it was surmised Miss Yates would carry her dimples into the Bright family.

  45. He searched eagerly every where in the neighborhood of the village for her, but in vain.

  46. The next day the fort was surprised and the whole body of the French within the fort and its neighborhood were massacred.

  47. Illustration: 0222] Pontiac was a chief of the Ottawas, a tribe which inhabited the neighborhood of Lake Erie, in the territory now included in the state of Michigan.

  48. Oconostota, with his friends had been lurking around the neighborhood during the afternoon.

  49. Another party in the neighborhood had roused fresh game.

  50. They used for all this masonry a cement made from a species of bitumen, which was found in great quantities floating down one of the rivers which flowed into the Euphrates, in the neighborhood of Babylon.

  51. Very soon after Croesus arrived at Sardis, the whole country in the neighborhood of the capital was thrown into a state of universal alarm by the news that Cyrus was close at hand.

  52. He was then conducted to a stream in the neighborhood of the oracle, where he was to be anointed and washed.

  53. The country in the neighborhood of Babylon, extending from the river on either hand was in general level and low, and subject to inundations.

  54. In the neighborhood of these mountains there was a country, inhabited by a wild and half-savage people, who were called Scythians.

  55. In the neighborhood and throughout the country there had at one time been many colored farmers, or ex-slaves, who had settled there after the war.

  56. To get the money for the purchase of the relinquishments, I had mortgaged my three hundred and twenty acres for seven thousand, six hundred dollars, the relinquishments costing in the neighborhood of six thousand, four hundred dollars.

  57. I took a roundabout way in getting back to the south side, keeping out of the colored neighborhood as long as possible, by taking a Halsted street car south, got a transfer, and took a Thirty-fifth street car.

  58. The house was in a quiet neighborhood much unlike the south end of Dearborn street and Armour avenue where none but colored people live.

  59. There was a very especial reason why I wished to come to this neighborhood which I would like to tell you later.

  60. I fear I shall feel a stranger and an outsider at the American Red Cross hospital when so many of you sail for home who were with me in the neighborhood of Chateau-Thierry, caring for our wounded American boys.

  61. He had been ordered to take charge of the Red Cross unit, who were to follow the division of American troops from the neighborhood of Chateau-Thierry to the Rhine to assist in policing Germany.

  62. Later in the day, the Red Cross unit from the hospital in the neighborhood of Chateau-Thierry took its place in the rear of the line of march of the American Army of Occupation toward Germany.

  63. The two girls were reaching the neighborhood of their Red Cross hospital.

  64. The house was not half a mile from the hospital, and so far as Bianca was concerned, Sonya was glad the young countess had chosen to stay for a time in their neighborhood under a kind of imposed chaperonage on her part.

  65. The day was the warmest day of the early spring and they decided to walk away from the city toward a woods which was probably only about a mile and a half from the neighborhood of the Red Cross hospital.

  66. Mrs. Clark, I haven't any immediate family, the one person I cared for and to whom I was engaged was killed here in the neighborhood of Chateau-Thierry at one of the first engagements of the United States troops.

  67. Colonel Winfield and Sonya Clark were great friends, as the colonel had been one of the commanders of a regiment stationed near the Red Cross hospital in the neighborhood of Chateau-Thierry for many months before the close of the war.

  68. Also they were leaving the neighborhood where she had lived under a burden of terror.

  69. There and all about the neighborhood he made an exhaustive search into Joan's history and character, and came back with his verdict.

  70. Toward midnight our aimless tramp brought us to the neighborhood of the beautiful church of St. Ouen, and there all was bustle and work.

  71. The listeners were greatly touched; but the probability that a large bear was in the neighborhood hastened their footsteps and they lost no time in hurrying away.

  72. He was glad that he did not meet any vehicles, for it not only showed that no one else in the neighborhood was placed in the same extremity as were he and his sister, but it lessened the danger of collision.

  73. When you get in a temper do you dream there's a soul in the neighborhood who doesn't know it?

  74. I kin tell her dat you say you sutney ain' comin' nigh our neighborhood dis night?

  75. At the time when my father was born in it, it was the heart of a neighborhood remotely and even primitively rural, and fifty years later, when I can first remember it, its immediate surroundings were unchanged.

  76. One of the questions as to which I was most anxious for information was whether there were in the neighborhood any other old castles, a visit to which I might find interesting.


  77. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neighborhood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ambit; approach; approximation; area; bailiwick; belt; borderland; circle; circuit; circumstances; closeness; compass; confines; context; corridor; country; department; district; division; entourage; environs; extent; foreground; ground; habitat; hinterland; immediacy; land; locale; locality; magnitude; matter; milieu; neighborhood; order; outpost; outskirts; part; parts; perimeter; periphery; place; precinct; precincts; premises; propinquity; proximity; purlieus; quarter; range; region; salient; section; situation; soil; space; suburbs; surroundings; terrain; territory; tune; vicinity