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Example sentences for "neighbors"

Lexicographically close words:
neighborhood; neighborhoods; neighboring; neighborliness; neighborly; neighbour; neighboured; neighbourhood; neighbourhoods; neighbouring
  1. Perhaps your cook has filled it with her good caraway cakes," and the two little neighbors disappeared through the great white door of the old house.

  2. The neighbors were used to hearing busy sounds of hammering and tinkering coming from the back where Mr. Franklin had built himself a workshop.

  3. And so may we feel the kindly warmth of Benjamin Franklin's heart in our stoves, which are so much better, but all modelled after the one he made for his neighbors in the Quaker City of long ago.

  4. Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones.

  5. In the evenings the neighbors used to drop in and sit mumbling over their fearful memories till the flesh crawled on my bones.

  6. The Tories of all ages and countries content themselves and alarm their neighbors by an adroit interpolation of this formula in their speech.

  7. At the end of that time I was a different woman, and the neighbors remarked it, and my husband fell in love with me all over again.

  8. Immediately the cures began, and her neighbors and friends told each other what had been done for them.

  9. Without money, but with a hopeful heart, she made up little batches of this remedy to give to neighbors and friends whom she felt could be relieved by it.

  10. Touching and beautiful was the kindly sympathy shown his memory by his neighbors in Gainesville who were bound to him by ties that no time can sever.

  11. Last night there was a great company of the neighbors at my uncle's, to help him in the husking and stripping of the corn, as is the custom in these parts.

  12. There must be a remission of rent almost universally, for the calamity has involved all; and such as are a little richer than their neighbors should be aided, that they may be the more able to help them.

  13. If your estate has resisted longer than those of your neighbors the demoralizing influences that are now at work here, you owe it to Mary.

  14. I am not a minister, and I've come to talk to you because some of your neighbors and friends think that there may be a reason why you should not be hanged for the death of your brother.

  15. My neighbors don't know nothing about it and I don't want 'em to.

  16. The neighbors coming in to see the strange discovery, tore one of the pieces to atoms, in the true Hun and Vandal style.

  17. In the Toltec tradition we have found the Chichimecs mentioned as a powerful and fierce people and their neighbors in Huehue Tlapallan.

  18. Ixtlilxochitl affirms that they were neighbors of the Huehue Tlapallan Toltecs and of Chichimec stock.

  19. Next occurred an earthquake which swallowed up and destroyed all the Quinames, or giants--at least all those who lived in the coast regions--together with many of the Toltecs and of their neighbors the Chichimecs.

  20. But I am so busy traducing my neighbors that I forgot to say I won the croquet prize, which was duly presented.

  21. Mrs. Wouvermans, it will appear, was one of that very common class of good people who improve every opportunity to show how very senseless their neighbors are compared with themselves.

  22. Friends and neighbors as they have opportunity are glad to stretch forth a helping hand, and a young fellow who should break his engagement with the daughter at such a crisis would simply be scouted as infamous.

  23. After the service came a general shaking of hands and greetings from neighbors and friends, as everybody walked round examining the decorations.

  24. But Mrs. Towles was a gossipy, penurious woman, and did not get along with her neighbors overhead.

  25. But the people and the neighbors all knew that he lied and that he was Ethiopian, the which looked out through his eyes.

  26. Grandmother will be here with you and if you need for anything, draw a check and have the neighbors below bring it out.

  27. In our house there was no lack of company; neighbors and friends visited us often, and we showed the greatest hospitality to every one.

  28. This went on so long that the neighbors came to the wife's assistance.

  29. She makes some of the neighbors furious, but we always laugh at her little idiosyncrasy.

  30. The Brisevilles ceased to call on her and Jeanne was surprised, knowing the punctiliousness of these neighbors in returning calls, but the Marquise de Coutelier haughtily told her the reason.

  31. They had a few neighbors to whom Julien would introduce his wife.

  32. One of my neighbors got a young squirrel, so young that it required milk; so they got a small nursing-bottle for it.

  33. V The other day one of my farmer neighbors asked me if I had seen the new bird that was about.

  34. She had switched her mother into the train of several neighbors and gossips who held her in talk so that the girl could walk through the woods with the National Guardsman.

  35. At the risk of whatever the neighbors might say against the heir to the Beausire name, the boy would have dispensed with the hat and band, of which he recognized the use before the other urchins did the freshness and beauty.

  36. Neighbors right handy all around," declared Thomas, "and no chance of ever gettin' lonesome.

  37. He must, therefore, adapt himself to the new conditions if he could, move to the manufacturing cities as so many of his neighbors did, or migrate to the West.

  38. Then all her neighbors begged her to teach them how to make a wonderful basket.

  39. It should be remembered that at the time the Omaha came to where they now reside and have resided for some centuries, the Arikara were in the region of what is now northern Nebraska, so they were then neighbors of the Omaha.

  40. As he sits on his red velvet chair, enjoying with his neighbors tobacco smoke, rapid travel, and the news of the world, who shall say whether he deals in shoes or in empires?

  41. With some difficulty he refrains from looking over the swinging doors before leaving, as he did in his home town, to make sure that none of his neighbors are coming down the street.

  42. He told me that a strange man had, in my name, bought a house in the quarter of the Greeks, and told the neighbors that I would soon, myself, return.

  43. The porridge is hot; Your neighbors bring with you, To dip in the pot!

  44. The whole company remained in camp some days, and during the time one of Hill's neighbors gave Brother James a fine mare, bridle and saddle.

  45. It was quite a commodious structure when completed and was considered by all our neighbors and friends who still lived in their log houses as quite a mansion.

  46. I knew Gates' company and my neighbors were in the fight and I wanted to help all I could.

  47. The logs were cut in the woods and dragged to the site of the house and the neighbors and friends came and helped us at the "raising.

  48. Shortly after the beginning of the war, Elijah Gates organized a company of southern boys, and most of my neighbors enlisted for six months.

  49. There were probably fifty of our neighbors on hand to see us start--many of them on horse-back--and they gave us much assistance.

  50. He informed us that some of his neighbors belonged to Quantrell's band, and that Quantrell was at that time in camp about three miles away.

  51. I was old enough to help in it, and I remember very distinctly the meetings the neighbors had to plan the work of building, and afterwards, I recall the meeting of the men with their teams to do the work.

  52. In the spring of 1847 he began to purchase from the neighbors around about and from the men in other communities, their surplus cattle, and in this way collected a herd of five hundred.

  53. I was too small to take much part in this work, but I remember that such neighbors as we had were good to us and came and helped.

  54. Quarrels were made up, and some other difficult relations of the army to its neighbors were satisfactorily adjusted.

  55. The neighbors with whom his host came in contact, friendly or unfriendly, were three.

  56. Madman that I am," he said to himself, "I cannot endure to live with barbarians for neighbors and yet I think of taking a barbarian to wife.

  57. Mrs. Draper presided at the entertainment; and when her own stock of provisions began to fail, applied to her neighbors for aid.

  58. She was the daughter of a patriot somewhat distinguished among his neighbors in Philadelphia.

  59. Just as he passed their ranks, one of his well-known neighbors fired at him, but missed the aim.

  60. We met one affectionate father with a cart, looking for his murdered son, and picking up his neighbors who had fallen in battle, in order for their burial.

  61. The testimony of his Tory neighbors was strong against him.

  62. The gallant Richard Caswell called his neighbors hastily together; and they came at his call as readily as the clans of the Scotch mountains mustered at the signal of the burning cross.


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