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Example sentences for "neighbouring village"

  • Meanwhile the news of this wonderful apparition spread like wildfire, and all the inhabitants of the village, as well as those of a neighbouring village about a mile distant, collected in and around the house.

  • At last, toward sunrise, some of the less zealous spectators began to return home, and those of them who had come from the neighbouring village discovered to their horror that during their absence their horses had been stolen!

  • I was most fortunate in obtaining the services of a man living in a neighbouring village, not only as estate carpenter, but as a skilled joiner, and possessing all the knowledge and efficiency of an experienced builder.

  • Other denominations besides the Church, of course, existed in the parish and neighbourhood; we did not hear much about them, but the following story was related as occurring in a neighbouring village.

  • With respect to themselves, they found it necessary, in conformity to the orders of the fetish, to walk to a neighbouring village, and there to spend the night.

  • The mother of the governor was buried this afternoon, at a neighbouring village, and the funeral was attended by all his wives or women as mourners.

  • Two months ago," wrote a petitioner, "I bought a piece of land in a neighbouring village, with the intention of building a house on it.

  • A girl of eighteen years of age, named Chang Shih, had been betrothed since early childhood to a youth who lived in a neighbouring village, and the bridal day was drawing near.

  • The other women were not so reticent, however, and from what they let drop I gathered that her husband had caught her philandering with a young buck belonging to a neighbouring village.

  • The newcomers were, the interpreter explained, a chief and his retinue from a neighbouring village, and they had ridden into Djabotaure in order to take part in the festivities that precede the great Mohammedan fast of Ramadan.

  • Having no tents, they collected the roofs of houses from a neighbouring village in hot or bad weather, cut away the branches to make rafters, and left the trunks as pillars to support the roofs, and under this treatment they soon died.

  • The eight pausees who exerted themselves so successfully in defence of the town and surae were expecting an attack from the pausees of a neighbouring village, and ready for action when the alarm was given.

  • An oil- vender, a female, from a neighbouring village, had presumed to come to Peernuggur, and offer oil for sale.

  • I have a friend in a farm in a neighbouring village, and am much amused at seeing country life.

  • To-day was beautiful again, and I mounted old Mustapha's cob pony and jogged over his farm with him, and lunched on delicious sour cream and fateereh at a neighbouring village, to the great delight of the fellaheen.

  • We only lost an anchor, and had to wait and have it fished up by the fishermen of a neighbouring village.

  • We were informed that the Mullah himself had gone to a neighbouring village to decide some dispute, but two of the sons came out to receive us, and led us into a verandah, where we were soon surrounded by the curious of the place.

  • The man concerned discreetly moved house to a neighbouring village.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neighbouring village" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both legs; cannot tell you how; could climb; easy victory; file closers; found himself; make hast; mere animal; neighbouring country; neighbouring hill; neighbouring town; neighbouring tree; neighbouring village; often represented; plain knitting; public funds; really seemed; said they; see below; shall become; small kind; sound philosophy; this order; thou knowest; thus began; women wage