How to Use neighbor in a Sentence

neighbor

1 of 2 noun
  • Canada is a neighbor of the U.S.
  • We invited our friends and neighbors.
  • Venus is Earth's nearest neighbor.
  • One neighbor said that the explosion came out of the garage.
    Adam Sabes, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The Padres are paying for all this and have been great neighbors.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2023
  • This upsets the center’s neighbors, some of whom have lived in the area for decades.
    Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Hahn said the man mainly had contact with his neighbors across the street.
    Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2024
  • In March, a woman in the Bronx stabbed her neighbor to death over a noise complaint.
    Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 6 June 2023
  • At the back of the room, neighbors and friends watched a photo montage of Liu’s travels.
    Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2023
  • Crime in The News Read the crime and public safety news your neighbors are talking about.
    Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Don't be noisy (hit mute if your neighbor starts mowing their lawn or the kids just got home from school).
    Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 15 June 2023
  • Whether those arguments will win over the neighbors is far from clear.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • This is a likely reason for a rapid growth in wildfires on the steppes of Russia and its neighbors in the past three decades.
    WIRED, 14 Oct. 2023
  • How much to tip in Canada The U.S.’s northern neighbor has a lot in common with it in terms of tipping.
    Kevin J. Ryan, wsj.com, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The neighbor told police Patterson barely let them into the house and rushed them out to the porch to smoke.
    Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
  • Its smaller neighbor, Olib, is on the same ferry route and feels even more remote.
    Mary Novakovich, CNN, 5 June 2023
  • The Swift plant has had a rocky relationship with its neighbors.
    Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 28 June 2023
  • Even after this, you're supposed to love your neighbor. ...
    Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 4 Aug. 2023
  • There are three main roads on Miquelon, which is much quieter than its smaller neighbor.
    Hillary Richards, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023
  • Two of his neighbors’ homes sustained damage, Toro told CNN.
    Christina Maxouris, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Listed by Wynne and Perry Moore, the land is surrounded by open space, yet close to neighbors.
    Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • My neighbors don’t care about somebody being fired at Fox.
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2023
  • This year, spare your neighbors the loud booms and opt for hanging red paper lanterns instead.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2024
  • At least one neighbor now considered Carmignani someone to keep an eye on too.
    Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
  • These guys are our downstairs neighbors in the office, and really good friends.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Don Hayden, one of those neighbors, told the TV station the cat was killed by a group of teenagers during the early morning hours Sunday.
    Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 20 July 2023
  • Her regular crowd of neighbors, some with children in tow, shuffled down the basement stairs and into the bunker.
    Oleksandr Naselenko Emile Ducke, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The two officers were at the home after a neighbor requested a welfare check because the home’s front door was open.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The Two and a Half Men alum’s neighbor was taken into police custody on Wednesday.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2023
  • And then some chance encounter with a neighbor had ejected them, in the style of Raymond’s 2010 simulations.
    Charlie Wood, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2023
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neighbor

2 of 2 verb
  • It was felt in neighboring Badghis and Farah provinces.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The Arabs rejected the plan and neighboring Arab countries launched a war against the Jewish state.
    Edith M. Lederer, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2023
  • In the corner of the frame, a pack of blue and yellow crayons neighbored a fork while a hand reached across the rows of professional athletes.
    Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 29 Dec. 2023
  • After searching the flood channel, deputies said Piza was found about 5 miles away in the neighboring city of Perris.
    Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2024
  • For train travel, the primary stations are the neighboring Gare du Nord and Gare de l’Est.
    Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2023
  • In 1994, Jordan signed a peace treaty with neighboring Israel.
    Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The average age of a first-time home buyer in Switzerland is 48, 15 years older than in neighboring France.
    Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The incident would soon draw in the president of the neighboring Dominican Republic, where two of the hostages were from.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
  • In November 2019, attackers from a neighboring gang torched his shop with Molotov cocktails and shot him in the foot and groin.
    Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
  • His father, a plantation owner known as Big Eddie, built a white-columned brick home at the edge of his sugarcane fields in the neighboring parish of St. Charles.
    Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Meanwhile, along the 1,254-mile Texas border, the largest of any state neighboring Mexico, crossings by migrants have plunged.
    Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The new trail boasts rugged, forested landscape, steep rocks, and beautiful views of Carson City and neighboring Washoe Valley.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • If spas aren't your style, there's plenty more to enjoy in Vail Village and neighboring Lionshead.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 22 Nov. 2023
  • This election is also being watched by the West for consequences for neighboring Ukraine.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
  • The spike in violence is tied to the trafficking of cocaine produced in neighboring Colombia and Peru.
    Regina Garcia Cano and Gonzalo Solano, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Most had moved there from neighboring Mali last year, after Malian military rulers also broke ties with France.
    Elian Peltier, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Wildfires in Algeria have claimed the lives of at least 34 people, while a blaze near the border in neighboring Tunisia has forced the military to evacuate the town of Melloula.
    Washington Post, 25 July 2023
  • The project, whose construction has just begun, jogs through neighboring Jersey City.
    Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Twice this week, explosions have derailed trains in the Bryansk region neighboring Ukraine.
    Haley Willis, New York Times, 3 May 2023
  • White, orange and different shades of blue representing the neighboring salt flats, the sun, the mountains and the river now pop on the roads, just as this west-side community planned it.
    Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Most expired long ago, but not in Oakland or neighboring San Francisco and Berkeley, all places where rents and rates of homelessness are high.
    Janie Har, Fortune, 26 June 2023
  • The neighboring state of Tamil Nadu has not banned the film, but the state’s multiplex owners’ association withdrew the film from cinemas.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 May 2023
  • The woman grabbed her phone and texted her neighboring family members, including her 23-year-old brother who rushed to her home to protect her.
    Emma Colton, Fox News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • His district comprises Mandan, the city neighboring Bismarck to the west across the Missouri River.
    CBS News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Demonstrations in the West Bank spread into neighboring Jordan.
    Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Cappello said there were two airfields in Serbia from which rescued airmen were flown to Italy, and one in neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina.
    cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
  • And if one island retreat isn’t enough, the unique offering includes neighboring Pea Island.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Enceladus, too, is stretched and squeezed by its gravitational tango with a neighboring moon called Dione.
    WIRED, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Homestead also provides access to the neighboring Royal Palm State Park.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The change isn’t without precedent: In neighboring Mat-Su, later Monday start times were implemented last school year.
    Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2023

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