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Example sentences for "neighbor"

Lexicographically close words:
neid; neider; neige; neiges; neigh; neighbored; neighborhood; neighborhoods; neighboring; neighborliness
  1. Her lips are like two budded roses, Whom ranks of lilies neighbor nigh, Within which bounds she balm encloses, Apt to entice a deity: Heigh ho, would she were mine.

  2. I gambol with my neighbor ice, And sympathizing quake, As each new crack darts in a trice Across the gladsome lake.

  3. To his imagination all things travel save his sign-post and himself; and though you may be his neighbor for years, he will show you only the civilities of the road.

  4. He and my son rescued the deer from the dogs, and a neighbor notified the supervisor, who gave permission for its removal to a barn, awaiting the arrival of the game warden.

  5. A neighbor was planning a greenhouse on the site then occupied by his young chickens and, to give security to the glass, cut down a great storm-battered and fire-scarred buttonball tree that stood at one end of his farm buildings.

  6. A neighbor of mine where I live on the shores of an island in the Great South Bay, took up his dock for the winter season and left a stake in the water.

  7. My Neighbor's Sparrow Trap My neighbor one block to the north, Professor E.

  8. After December 5 heavy snows fell, followed by sleet storms, and my neighbor temporarily placed his trap out of service on a back porch.

  9. She was tired, and sometimes her good neighbor stayed very late.

  10. The remark about Mrs. Richie's rings really disturbed him; it made him deplore to himself the advent as a neighbor of a foolish woman.

  11. He thought about it constantly, and asked himself whether he did not owe his neighbor an apology of some kind.

  12. So Mrs. Richie was just as well pleased that in the next few years David, for one reason or another, did not see his old neighbor very often.

  13. Miss White retired, nibbling with horror, and that night Robert Ferguson went in to tell his neighbor his worries.

  14. Florence returns frown for frown, and does not rest till she has made her neighbor of the hills a slave.

  15. Every neighbor reverenced me, some through love and some through dread; for it was dear to them to rest beneath his mantle.

  16. The two races were at peace with each other, for neither cared to convert a passive neighbor into an active enemy.

  17. Here they met a neighbor named Hart, who was also looking for stray cattle.

  18. Moreover, what might possibly never have been missed from the vast herds of Langford, his neighbor of the plains country, was of most serious import to Williston for an even weightier reason than the actual present loss.

  19. She waited until her kindly neighbor had trotted back to her household cares, and pushed the plate away.

  20. The Judge's outspread arms had forced Louise very close to her neighbor on the right, who had the instructions to keep her amused, but even then he must bend his head if he were to obey orders strictly and--talk.

  21. It is enough to say that, to my delight, I reached our neighbor planet called Mars, and at once proceeded to study its physical features and its human life.

  22. Mr. Strout comes 'round and gets some of't every year, and likewise my neighbor has some put aside for a rainy day.

  23. In the city the plan that we follow is to pass our own slip to our left-hand neighbor and he or she reads it.

  24. To the United States it may also be of great importance, if it could be the means of removing from Mexico the pressure of hostile armaments, and placing a neighbor republic in a more tranquil and independent condition.

  25. But, anxious to help Mexico, Mr. Seward proposed pecuniary aid, in the hope of enabling our neighbor republic to satisfy the demands of the invading allies, so far at least as to make them withdraw.

  26. The neighbor bent over the mother in surprise and alarm.

  27. Trina said to the neighbor who met her at the door; "I have something good for the sick one's dinner; I hope I am not too late.

  28. Early the following morning a neighbor passed the window on her way to the well, and, glancing in as usual, she saw Wiseli crying beside the mother, who had her head pillowed on the window seat.

  29. He directed the neighbor to look after everything so that he might take the child away at once.

  30. A neighbor dropping in viewed these proceedings with surprise.

  31. Bein' a neighbor we didn't go fer to ask her nuthin', but she give us the nut cakes.

  32. The novel presence of the "mailman" at their door brought every neighbor to post of observation.

  33. Which of these three think you was a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?

  34. And he answered and said, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.

  35. And the second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

  36. Second is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

  37. But he that injured his neighbor repelled him, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

  38. For all the law is fully contained in one precept; you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

  39. I put the others to bed, and neighbor Bryce will feed Tommy if he cries; but I brought little Sal along o' me.

  40. A miserable neighbor in an opposite attic presently heard the three laughing as they worked.

  41. They knew where he was visiting, but had thought it wiser to go to the Next Neighbor to pay their little visit.

  42. Master of the House, as the Next Neighbor paused to take breath.

  43. The Next Neighbor was also on intimate terms with Euphemia and her Husband, and a devoted and rapturous admirer of Pomona.

  44. The Next Neighbor wished she had been in the balloon to pitch the tiger on him.

  45. We bought for cash, and no one knew his neighbor was selling.

  46. John was called up at once, and the Next Neighbor accosted him gayly: "If you had known that I am going to tell a story you would have walked faster.

  47. At an unhappy moment Rounders had said to his neighbor that if she could taste the sort of thing she was eating as his cook made it she would know what it really ought to be.

  48. When he had finished, the Next Neighbor said: "That was so full of soul I hate to go on with my very material story.

  49. His lordship then explained that, understanding there were worthy people in distress, he was in hopes he might be permitted to assist them, and that she must blame a neighbor of hers if he had broken in upon her too abruptly with this object.

  50. Western Europe is a nearer neighbor than either Central or Eastern, and what stern censors permit us to know is nicely calculated to arouse our prejudice on one side or the other.

  51. To gain quickly a military advantage in attacking a neighbor came to be regarded as proper ground for violating any or all international treaties and agreements, no matter how solemn and comprehensive, how old or how new.

  52. As Nietzsche insists, "The man who loves his neighbor as himself must have an exceedingly poor opinion of himself.

  53. Each nation looks with envy on the prosperity of its neighbor and acts upon the assumption that its neighbor is a rival, and that its own commerce and wealth can be built up only at the expense of its rival.

  54. And England was the last of the great powers to enter the conflict, her plea being the moral obligation of supporting treaties in which she guaranteed the integrity of a weak neighbor and undertook to defend her ally, France, when attacked.

  55. The Monroe Doctrine, to have no armed neighbor which shall compel us to violate by its presence our dislike for compulsory military service or to expend great sums for armament.

  56. This impetuous step of Germany to compel its great neighbor to desist from military preparations to defend itself came most inopportunely, for on Aug.

  57. Our interest in him centres in his relations to his neighbor nations.

  58. The charge of Russian mobilization in view of such a situation suggests the temper of the man who, when caught in his own bear trap, tries to find his neighbor at fault.

  59. HENRY JAMES Henry James has been at pains, lately, to put a stop to a report that he proposes to return to America, yet by descent and at heart he is undoubtedly as loyal an American as his neighbor in England, Bret Harte.

  60. The plain fact seemed to be that his ready purse and his business sense had saved a humble neighbor from misfortune.

  61. By a coincidence; after my return to San Francisco, he came thither, and again became my neighbor at North Beach.

  62. Not being on friendly terms with Reese, his neighbor made a peremptory demand for the removal of the wall, or the payment of a heavy price for the ground.

  63. It's our next-door neighbor here--your son bought the house from him.

  64. I can't see anything better to do than tell him his son bought the house of our next-door neighbor here.

  65. The name that recurs the most often is that of his friend and neighbor Thoreau.

  66. Another neighbor who greatly impressed Emerson, and of whom he has much to say, was Father Taylor, the sailor preacher of Boston.

  67. Yet his neighbor Emerson was in much demand as a lecturer, and earned a good deal of money in that way.

  68. I remember an entry in his Journal in which he tells of feeling a little cheapened when a neighbor asked him to take some handbills and leave them at a certain place as he passed on his walk.

  69. My Right-Hand Neighbor This is a catch game and useless except when one of the company knows nothing about it.

  70. All having done this, the player who begins offers her hand, with the cards face downward, to her neighbor, and her neighbor takes one.

  71. It is very clear that I am lazy, and that I tear my neighbor away from his affairs, and I shall feel mortified, and I shall find it tiresome to lie still all the time; and I shall go and split my wood for myself.


  72. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neighbor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    neighboring countries; neighboring village