NEIGHBORING in a Sentence

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1. We maintain cordial relations with our neighbors.
2. Matt's behavior was arousing the interest of the neighbors.
3. One of the neighbors complained about the noise from the party.
4. My new neighbor moved in last weekend and already we're on speaking terms.
5. His neighbors denounced him as a wastrel who had dissipated his inheritance.

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 Meanings and Examples of NEIGHBORING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
neighboring
 a.  having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Being poor white, they were not even accorded the grudging respect that Angus MacIntosh's dour independence wrung from neighboring families.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  There were no sounds of negroes' lazy voices in neighboring kitchens, no pleasant sounds of breakfasts being prepared, for all the near neighbors except Mrs. Meade and Mrs. Merriwether had refugeed to Macon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
3  She had opened a new house of her own, a large two-story building that made neighboring houses in the district look like shabby rabbit warrens.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  It was she who objected to the neighboring Protestant preachers and gave the matter into Ashley's hands, marking passages in her book for him to read.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  The lady in black was reading her morning devotions on the porch of a neighboring bathhouse.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
6  At another time her affections were deeply engaged by a young gentleman who visited a lady on a neighboring plantation.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
7  She did not linger to discuss class distinctions with Madame Pouponne, but hastened to a neighboring grocery store, feeling sure that Mademoiselle would have left her address with the proprietor.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XX
8  In the next room she slept, and in the third and last she harbored a gasoline stove on which she cooked her meals when disinclined to descend to the neighboring restaurant.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXI
9  He went out to a neighboring cigar stand to purchase cigarette papers, and when he came back he found that Celestine had served the black coffee in the parlor.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIV
10  A shout was at that moment heard, as if issuing from the center of the rock, announcing that the neighboring cavern had at length been entered.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
11  Some were rushing eagerly to enjoy the aquatic games of the lake, and others were already toiling their way up the neighboring hills, with the restless curiosity of their nation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
12  I was, maybe, such an one as yourself when I plighted my faith to Alice Graham, the only child of a neighboring laird of some estate.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
13  Pursuing the direction given by this discovery, he entered the neighboring thicket, and struck the trail, as fresh and obvious as it had been before they reached the spring.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
14  Colonel Lloyd kept from three to four hundred slaves on his home plantation, and owned a large number more on the neighboring farms belonging to him.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
15  The whole place wore a business-like aspect very unlike the neighboring farms.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
16  Anti-social behavior covers incidents such as rowdy and inconsiderate behavior, nuisance neighbors, drinking in the street, littering, abandoned cars and youth disorder.
17  His neighbors denounced him as a wastrel who had dissipated his inheritance.
18  Matt's behavior was arousing the interest of the neighbors.
19  We maintain cordial relations with our neighbors.
20  When she finds the right neighborhood, she interviews neighbors and mail carriers to verify the addresses.
21  One of the neighbors complained about the noise from the party.
22  On a quiet little road in upstate New York, resides an older woman whom neighbors describe as friendly, polite, averse to drama or confrontation.
23  There are some neighbor dogs I would like to use it on, just to train them not to bark and howl, especially when they wake me up at night.
24  One neighbor, who usually uses the truck to haul away lawn debris, always returns the truck in meticulous condition.
25  One of them didn't know how to spell "stupid," and he had to ask his neighbor to tell him.
26  Jeremy hated his neighbor's unkempt lawn: he thought its neglected appearance had a detrimental effect on neighborhood property values.
27  Why should any resident have to suffer a likely increase in vermin simply because their neighbor doesn't like the look of a wheelie bin?
28  Finally it occurred to them that their naked skin represented flesh-colored "tights" very fairly; so they drew a ring in the sand and had a circus -- with three clowns in it, for none would yield this proudest post to his neighbor.
29  He put up lights in the shape of an arrow pointing to the neighbor's eye-catching display.
30  My new neighbor moved in last weekend and already we're on speaking terms.