NEIGHBORHOOD in a Sentence

Learn NEIGHBORHOOD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

162 example sentences for NEIGHBORHOOD, such as:

1. The whole neighborhood was there.
2. Most of the people in this neighborhood are on welfare.
3. He is street smart and is not afraid of this neighborhood.
4. The child's murder sent shock waves through the neighborhood.
5. Nobody knows where they are but they're in that neighborhood.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of NEIGHBORHOOD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
neighborhood
 n.  a surrounding or nearby region, the approximate amount of something
Classic Sentence: (79 in 6 pages)
1  In a neighborhood where everyone said exactly what he thought as soon as he thought it, Ashley's quality of reserve was exasperating.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  The Meades and McLures proudly read these letters all over the neighborhood, and Scarlett had frequently felt a secret shame that Melanie had no such letters from Ashley to read aloud at sewing circles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  She was seldom seen on Peachtree Street or in any nice neighborhood, but when she did appear respectable women made haste to cross the street to remove themselves from her vicinity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  Nobody knows where they are but they're in that neighborhood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  Even if the Yankees had burned the town completely, she would certainly find someone in the neighborhood who could tell her where to get food.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  We were in this neighborhood in September, said one of the men, turning something in his hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  The military authorities had heard that Tony had been advised to go to Miss Pitty's house, and they were certain he was still hiding there or somewhere m the neighborhood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
8  Everyone knew his affections lay with Carreen, so the news that he was to marry the neighborhood pariah instead sat ill upon them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
9  What I mean is with the scarcity of men in the neighborhood, Will could marry most any of the girls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
10  Sometimes the neighborhood was scandalized by the presence of foreigners, speaking little or no English, who had been drawn South by glowing tales of fortunes easily made.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
11  She thought, however, that once the novelty had passed, Bonnie would turn to other things and the neighborhood would have some peace.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
12  After Bonnie died, many of the good ladies of the neighborhood who had been won over to him by his charming manners with his daughter were anxious to show him kindness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
13  The swift punishment which invariably follows these horrible crimes doubtless acts as a deterring effect upon the Negroes in that immediate neighborhood for a short time.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
14  He talked a good deal on various topics, a little politics, some city news and neighborhood gossip.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
15  He thanked heaven she had left the neighborhood, and was equally thankful that he did not know where she had gone.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XX
Example Sentence: (83 in 6 pages)
16  In Los Angeles, the neighborhood known as Watts erupted into riots.
17  The child's murder sent shock waves through the neighborhood.
18  Most of the people in this neighborhood are on welfare.
19  He is street smart and is not afraid of this neighborhood.
20  We look towards the amalgamation of some of the neighborhood factories.
21  All these glossy pamphlets are just window dressing - the fact is that the new mall will ruin the neighborhood.
22  Critics claim the building would destroy the flavor of the neighborhood.
23  A new supermarket will be put up in this neighborhood next year.
24  We will plan to rehabilitate the run - down neighborhood.
25  That horrible building lowers the whole tone of the neighborhood.
26  What happened in the factory is being whispered about the neighborhood.
27  You can find a nice house in this neighborhood, and you don't have to spend a whole lot.
28  Their neighborhood is being inundated by the rising waters of the Colorado River.
29  The whole neighborhood was there.
30  They thought an influx of students would lower the tone of the neighborhood.