How to Use neighborhood in a Sentence

neighborhood

noun
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  • The whole neighborhood heard about it.
  • They bought a house in a beautiful neighborhood.
  • And out of the 40 coolest neighborhoods to make the list, Laureles came out on top.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2023
  • It’s tucked away in the middle of a quiet neighborhood.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The girls had their own room, and the boys had one, too — a luxury in their neighborhood of open sewers and dirt roads.
    — Lynsey Chutel Gulshan Khan, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The little ice cream shop has been in Woodstock for 10 years and is a neighborhood favorite.
    — oregonlive, 12 July 2023
  • Linda's mom, and then Linda's sister lives in the neighborhood too with her kids.
    — Alex Cramer, Peoplemag, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The neighborhood was overwhelmed early asthe fire raced down the steep hill behind the city toward the sea.
    — Joshua Partlow, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Either for me or for people like me or my neighborhood.
    — Rob Reddick, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Those who feel that the area is at least generally safe said the shooting didn’t change their view of the neighborhood, either.
    — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Mar. 2024
  • In 2005, his firm won the bidding to redevelop the neighborhood.
    — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 26 May 2023
  • Further inland is the neighborhood of Liberty City, which is the highest and driest in the area.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Howze arrived at a moment when the neighborhood was under threat.
    — Dara T. Mathis, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Asthma rates are also the highest in these same neighborhoods, as well as parts of Brooklyn, where Pravin lives.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 8 June 2023
  • His mom had asked him to go to an address in Kansas City’s Nashua neighborhood, a little more than 15 miles north of downtown.
    — Selina Guevara, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Police say the suspect in the stabbing was enrolled in a learn-to-work program at a school in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2023
  • When news about what had happened the sweet dog that always wears a bandana got around, the neighborhood kids got together.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2023
  • For Jet Setters: Polanco A small stroll through this buzzy neighborhood is enough to fall in love with its vibrant spirit.
    — Christin Parcerisa Vigueras, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2023
  • In Madison, a black bear was spotted wandering through several neighborhoods at the start of the month.
    — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 12 May 2023
  • People from the southwest neighborhoods often must take a bus to get to the clinic for routine testing – a trip that can take up to 90 minutes.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
  • Rachel and her parents live in a suburban San Diego neighborhood.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The neighborhood block was filled with stylish individuals that made sure to show out for any photo ops.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The site is in a residential and commercial neighborhood in the District Heights area.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
  • The biggest apartment in London’s ritzy Knightsbridge neighborhood is up for sale, and no surprise, there’s an enormous price tag to match.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Yunior doesn’t learn the full details until years later, long after Mr. Wilson has left the neighborhood, and the country.
    — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • In our neighborhood there was a supermarket called Grand Union.
    — Matt Thompson, Spin, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Some folks did already live in the Dickson Street area, and those who did complained the project was gentrification in action and the old neighborhood would be pushed out.
    — April Wallace, arkansasonline.com, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The gummies came not from a licensed cannabis dispensary, but from a neighborhood smoke shop, according to the school report of the incident and one of the parents of the teens involved.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • There is also Ruka, an East L.A. girl who saves kids from getting kidnapped in her neighborhood.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The bookstore also has a location in San Jose’s Rose Garden neighborhood.
    — Lisa Thorn, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024

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