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Example sentences for "neighboring"

Lexicographically close words:
neigh; neighbor; neighbored; neighborhood; neighborhoods; neighborliness; neighborly; neighbors; neighbour; neighboured
  1. It was considered certain that these vessels would contain a number of the small pottery figures which similar vessels from neighboring mounds had yielded.

  2. Within the latter were discovered a few small animal bones, some freshwater snail shells (as are found at the present day in the neighboring swamps and eaten by the Indians), and a few bivalve shells.

  3. My grandfather went after a neighboring clan who had raided his cattle.

  4. Though in roundabout ways he tried to find out if any woman, answering to her description, was visiting at the time in any of the neighboring country houses, he failed entirely to get any result.

  5. The circumstance excited much remark: curiosity led many to read that and others of the series, and a great number were circulated in the neighboring districts.

  6. I took up my permanent abode in a neighboring county; and within six months after that celebration of St. John's eve, I experienced the mighty power of God in a way truly marvellous.

  7. A series of massive population displacements, a nagging Hutu extremist insurgency, and Rwandan involvement in two wars over the past four years in the neighboring DROC continue to hinder Rwanda's efforts.

  8. During the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, it gradually added neighboring islands and territories with Greek-speaking populations.

  9. While Bogota continues to try to negotiate a settlement, neighboring countries worry about the violence spilling over their borders.

  10. FYROM's large Albanian minority and the de facto independence of neighboring Kosovo continue to be sources of ethnic tension.

  11. Every morning, crossing the garden to the neighboring church, she assisted at mass, prayed for the relief of the city, and received with tears the holy communion.

  12. As Charles loitered about the neighborhood, as contemptible a figure as History can show in all her ample page, the delighted people still flocked from neighboring towns and villages to do homage to him and the Maid.

  13. The stork clattering to her young on the house-peak may feel that her nest is lifted far out of danger, but the croaking frog in neighboring bulrushes is nearer the stars than she.

  14. Whole families were skimming their way to Haarlem or Leyden or the neighboring villages.

  15. Therefore by sundown it was well known throughout the neighboring country that Dr.

  16. It was a terrible ordeal for a boy of his tender years to witness the horrid sights transpiring around him; and then, when the neighboring cabins were fired, he was filled with fear, lest the cinders would set the tree ablaze.

  17. With this he went into business, with good prospects, in a neighboring city.

  18. Lice are introduced from neighboring herds, and the losses in feeding are often severe, especially among young pigs, when death is sometimes a secondary if not an immediate result.

  19. Whenever any animals are brought to the farm, or when animals are brought home from shows or from neighboring farms, they should be kept apart from the rest of the herd for at least three weeks.

  20. Did any dispute occur between him and a neighboring sachem, he invited him and all his principal sages and fighting-men to a solemn banquet, and seldom failed of feeding them into terms.

  21. The tomb, like most of the neighboring monuments, is almost in ruins, and the sculpture is nearly unintelligible, excepting to the keen eye of the antiquary.

  22. A bright pure spring welled up at the foot of the green bank; a wild brook came babbling down a neighboring ravine, and threw itself into a little woody cove, in front of the mansion.

  23. Neighboring states, of opposite creeds, were occasionally linked together in alliances, offensive and defensive; so that the cross and crescent were to be seen side by side fighting against some common enemy.

  24. The other caravel, from which he had been separated in the storm, had made a neighboring port of the island, and announced the tidings of this expedition, which came to restore the country to the great community of Christendom.

  25. Upon the former occasion there had been nothing against him, but such circumstances of strong suspicion as justified the neighboring magistrates in having him taken into custody.

  26. Only last week my head aide-de-camp sent for a barber who was attached to a neighboring regiment, using as a messenger the orderly whom I had stationed at the door.

  27. Hence it was necessary to draw from the neighboring colonies.

  28. The basement sent forth no glow of warmth and comfort, as did the neighboring basements; the ground-floor windows permitted no ray of mellow light to slip through the chinks of shutter or curtain.

  29. Currents of warm air affect the extent of the glaciers, and influence also the line of perpetual snow, which is by no means at the same level even in neighboring localities.

  30. He next led Ribaut among the bushes behind the neighboring sand-hill, and ordered his hands to be bound fast.

  31. Two bastions jut from the main work into it, protecting it from approach by a terrible cross-fire.

  32. If the neighboring mountains are as rich in lilies, then this may well be called the Lily Range.

  33. I quitted my camp early in the morning to survey the neighboring country, leaving my guide to take charge of the horses until my return in the evening.

  34. Among these witnesses were the mayor of the town, the Marquis de Mirville, well known as an author of repute, a neighboring lady of rank and her son, and three clergymen.

  35. During our stay in Albany our rooms were thronged with anxious investigators from all the neighboring towns and cities.

  36. It seems that the question was asked whether there was any communication for me, and the direction from the sounds was, that three persons be magnetized; two of whom were present, and one was sent for from a neighboring family.

  37. It is intended to establish these points about twelve miles apart, and their positions will be determined by careful astronomical observations, checked by accurate measurements of their distance from neighboring stations.

  38. But the fat was in the fire, and when Goodwife Hoyt returned with more sap, she found the syrup there too, and the Sergeant kissing the unresisting Mary behind a neighboring maple.

  39. It will comprise lectures, laboratory work, and excursions to the neighboring seashores.

  40. Upon the neighboring land the ground was shaken, while upon the low coasts, a great water wave rushed, destroying thousands of lives.

  41. The whole literature of ancient Egypt and the neighboring countries," Mr. Cowper proceeded, "abounds with mystical stories of this perfect food.

  42. We now find the yellows gradually extending into neighboring states--Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland and New York.

  43. They apply equally well to Maryland, these neighboring colonies, it will be remembered, being called by one of our authors, "Leah and Rachel or the Two Fruitful Sisters.

  44. He brought, we are told, fruits, flowers, farm and truck-crops from the neighboring colonies and Holland and these he not only planted on Manhattan Island but sent to the settlements up the Hudson.

  45. The body I have described was identified as that of Abraham Smith, an unfortunate lunatic, who had, upon the day but one preceding, made his escape from the neighboring parish workhouse, where he had been for many years confined.

  46. In a neighboring church, there was a popular preacher, a skeleton with life.

  47. At last he lifts his hand; he snatches apparently at vacancy to pull nothing down In truth his eye had at last caught the gleam of light reflected from an almost invisible spider line running from the electrical wire to the neighboring planks.

  48. That such a population would be fatal to the peace and security of the neighboring State of Missouri, and immediate destruction of such owners of slaves as had already moved to the Territory of Kansas, is too clear to admit of argument.

  49. Egyptian considered it a crime in anyone to violate the wife of another.

  50. Thou shalt not destroy nor cause the destruction of any living thing.

  51. Does the Archdeacon agree with St. Augustine that over seventy miracles were performed with these bones, and that in a neighboring town many hundreds of miracles were performed?


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neighboring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adjacent; adjoining; ambient; bordering; circling; circumferential; connecting; conterminous; contiguous; coterminous; embracing; encircling; enclosing; endways; immediate; joined; juxtaposed; neighbor; neighboring; next; peripheral; roundabout; suburban; surrounding; wrapping


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