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Example sentences for "neighbour"

Lexicographically close words:
neighborhoods; neighboring; neighborliness; neighborly; neighbors; neighboured; neighbourhood; neighbourhoods; neighbouring; neighbourliness
  1. I can trust Thomas to hold his tongue, and I hope I can trust you, neighbour Cripps.

  2. The genial power of good ale, and the presence of old friends, were working on the solid English hearts; and every man was ready for his neighbour to say something.

  3. The house of a neighbour had been carried away.

  4. Partly from one, partly from another, I gathered that a certain neighbour had owed the pedlar something for a Rampuri shawl, but had falsely denied having bought it, and that in the course of the quarrel Rahmun had struck him.

  5. His well-timed adhesion was repaid by a life-grant of the dukedom of Spoleto, after which he returned to defend his frontiers from his turbulent neighbour of Montone.

  6. The Count of Urbino's service as captain-general expired in September, when he would gladly have quitted a cause forsaken apparently by fortune, in order to protect home interests, always in peril from his neighbour of Rimini.

  7. Symptoms of poisoning very soon followed, and the whole family was found by a neighbour lying on the floor in a state of great agony.

  8. Having a neighbour named Chang who had many daughters, it occurred to the parents of the solitary child that it would be a good plan to have her 'adopted' into the family of the man with several daughters as one of them.

  9. In the foreground every flower is painted and every colour is frankly set beside its neighbour without the traditional gradation.

  10. No one poses, no one makes impassioned gestures, no one thinks of grouping himself with his neighbour in fine flowing lines.

  11. Cursed is he that smiteth his neighbour secretly.

  12. And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

  13. And the second is | like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: | there is none other commandment greater than these.

  14. And the second is like, | namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: there is | none other commandment greater than these.

  15. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

  16. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?

  17. Perhaps the barn had burned; perhaps the cattle had frozen to death; perhaps a neighbour was lost in the storm.

  18. At four o'clock Mr. Bushy, the postmaster, with another neighbour who lived east of us, stopped in to get warm.

  19. The boy had come to town with a neighbour to do his Christmas shopping, for he had money of his own this year.

  20. On the other hand a Basque will speak French perfectly, without the slightest accent, when he feels like it, but his Bearnais neighbour makes a horrible mess of it, mixing Parisian French with his chattering patois.

  21. The whole valley of the Tech, being a near neighbour of Spain, has that hybrid French-Spanish aspect which gives a distinctive shade of life and colour to everything about.

  22. Salies de Bearn is a near neighbour of Orthez, and can be omitted from no Pyrenean itinerary.

  23. Its churches, too, are practically fortresses, like those of its neighbour Arles, and the whole aspect of the region is warlike.

  24. He is a young man, of good family I believe, spending the summer with a neighbour of ours who is his relation," Mr. Randolph answered.

  25. Daisy thereupon began to tell her little neighbour the grand story which concerned them both so nearly, making it as clear and simple as she could.

  26. His neighbour roused herself at the faint summons and appeared.

  27. Towards the conclusion of the discourse, however, he felt a strong inclination to give, and applied to a neighbour who stood near him to lend him some money for the purpose.

  28. And to that end they two went early the Sunday following to a neighbour minister, and requested to exchange a sermon; and they did so.

  29. If you asked your neighbour at the dinner-table which of the glens of the dolomites he had rambled into?

  30. Somebody she likes--a young and handsome prince from Germany, or maybe Austria, and a great friend and near neighbour of the Princess, when she is at home.

  31. So is the man who reverses the divine law and hates his neighbour instead of loving him," retorted Shirley.

  32. Then the music struck up, the dance went on, and his neighbour became so interested in watching the movements of this strange Duchess through its mazes as to forget Alwyn for a while.

  33. Her Grace, though hardly out of mourning, will be sure to come down and lead off the dance with neighbour Bates,' said one.

  34. He gave one of the gentlemen and myself lodgings in his own house, and our two companions in that of a neighbour of his, inviting all of us to dine at his table.

  35. However, I heard no howling, and observed no other indication of our dreaded neighbour than the terror of my people and cattle.

  36. In the course of our desires, God hath three things, the world one, our neighbour two.

  37. For if once we be truly linked and touched with this charity, we shall love God above all, our neighbour as ourself, as we are enjoined, Mark xii.

  38. Woe be to him that makes his neighbour drunk, shameful spewing shall be upon his glory.

  39. When Monsieur Papalier returned to the hotel, from his cruise for information, he found his neighbour Bayou impatiently waiting on horseback, while Henri, still in his white apron, was holding the other horse.

  40. They met with little response, however; and every one felt, amidst the show and parade and festivity of the day, a restlessness and uncertainty which he perceived existed no less in his neighbour than in himself.

  41. The speaker was Sir Godefroi de Tinteniac, a near neighbour of the Sire du Guesclin; and the lad whom he was training to manage horse and lance on a wide sweep of greensward a few miles from Rennes, was Bertrand du Guesclin himself.

  42. Her companion said something that I could not hear--I believe it was my pleasant neighbour at breakfast whom she was trying to set against me--and then she put on the crowning touch.

  43. His sister was a friend and neighbour of mine, and I knew that he was staying with her.

  44. Full of avarice and desire, each scrambled down from the tree, spread his cloth, and darted hither and thither picking up the precious jewels, looking the while over his shoulder to see whether his neighbour fared better than he.

  45. But I dare say it is quiet for a young thing like you,' she added, 'and I have invited my neighbour the mole to come and pay us a visit.

  46. Unluckily for Lino, he had for his neighbour on the other side a powerful magician named Ismenor, who was king of the Isle of Lions, and the father of a hideous daughter, whom he thought the most beautiful creature that ever existed.

  47. Another neighbour saw the old woman joining in the mirth, as late as eleven o'clock on the Friday night.

  48. At a later hour in the morning a neighbour came in, who had been in the house on the previous evening, and asked, what had become of the fortune-teller?


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neighbour" 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:
    neighbouring country; neighbouring hill; neighbouring town; neighbouring tree; neighbouring village