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Example sentences for "neighbourly"

Lexicographically close words:
neighboured; neighbourhood; neighbourhoods; neighbouring; neighbourliness; neighbours; neighed; neighing; neighs; nein
  1. I only brought him and Rover here to sup, because I thought it neighbourly and kind-like.

  2. They are bestowed on modest integrity in humble circumstances which has manifested a sense of duty, neighbourly love and self-sacrifice.

  3. There was always a neighbourly and friendly interest taken in such collections, as popular designs were exchanged and copied many times.

  4. This kindness of sharing was bringing its own reward in the neighbourly goodness of Mr. Smith, who did many things for them which were not in his ploughing contract.

  5. Then Mrs. Smith, with real neighbourly kindness, drove over from Blow End and carried off the five children, a huge relief to Bertha, as with two threshing machines at work it was extraordinarily difficult to keep the children out of danger.

  6. To Cologne he said, "Be neutral," but the burghers showed so little inclination to heed his neighbourly advice that he tried harsher measures and permitted Cologne merchants to be molested in his domains.

  7. The Duke of Guelders also had a neighbourly interest in Utrecht and he, too, had a pet candidate, Stephen of Bavaria, whose election he urged.

  8. So long as old man Gordyey was alive, and Ivan's father ran the farm, the peasants lived in neighbourly fashion.

  9. If the women needed a sieve or a vat, or the men had to get another axle or wheel for a time, they sent from one farm to another, and helped each other out in a neighbourly way.

  10. And Ivan and Gavrilo lived neighbourly together, just as their fathers had lived.

  11. Among all Janet's neighbourly pleasures, there was nothing she liked better than to take an early tea at the White House, and to stroll with Mr. Jerome round the old-fashioned garden and orchard.

  12. They certainly did not seem to desire more than to live on neighbourly terms with the adjoining populations.

  13. Solomon also entered into close and friendly connection with Hiram, king of Tyre, with whom David had already established a neighbourly intimacy.

  14. It will be the best possible guarantee I can have for his kind and neighbourly conduct hereafter.

  15. So, I suppose, he is engaged in the neighbourly business of taking care of our geese.

  16. We gladly acknowledge that in most parts of Ireland Protestants and Roman Catholics, as regards the ordinary affairs of life, live side by side on friendly neighbourly terms.

  17. Writing the familiar word Ujijijijijiji, I caught a neighbourly cockroach, skewered him upon a pin, and fastened him in the centre of the word.

  18. A frog who had been sitting up all night in neighbourly converse with an echo of elegant leisure, went out in the grey of the morning to obtain a cheap breakfast.

  19. A neighbourly spirit, ma'am, a very neighbourly spirit; but you should not allow your goodness to defeat the ends of justice.

  20. Very rarely indeed has been met with so fair and so neighbourly a man.

  21. What are the fights of politics and parties beside living neighbourly with one another, and to go peaceable to the grave, our selves that are the oldest residents in the Square.

  22. We hope to be neighbourly when we are quite settled.

  23. I may venture to assure Mrs. Effingham that my neighbourly duties for the future will not be neglected.

  24. It is by neighbourly love that we attain to a higher and diviner love.

  25. Formerly, when thought went beyond himself, its circumference was limited by the good of his own family; but now, he gave some care to the common good, and manifested a neighbourly regard for others.

  26. Who seek the good of others from a genuine neighbourly love?

  27. Indeed, we must be neighbourly in this country.

  28. Mr. Martin made it clear that he was chiefly anxious to do a neighbourly turn.

  29. What can be more natural and neighbourly than for me to drop in, as I am going to do, for a chat with old Vine?

  30. I'm depressed and worried to-day; be a bit neighbourly if you can.

  31. They want to behave straightly, honourably, and in a neighbourly fashion towards one another, and are only too thankful when means and conditions can be found which will let them indulge this inborn feeling of fellowship.

  32. This, I believe, is your sister--Mistress Barbara Yellowley, permit me the honour of a neighbourly salute.

  33. This seems to me to suit our friendly and neighbourly relations, as well as my devotion to your Signoria.


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