How to Use neighborhood in a Sentence

neighborhood

noun
  • The whole neighborhood heard about it.
  • They bought a house in a beautiful neighborhood.
  • In her neighborhood, the roads had been so bad and the bus stop was unplowed for the first day or two of the storm, Nick said.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2022
  • And out of the 40 coolest neighborhoods to make the list, Laureles came out on top.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Of the six, Lakeland is the only neighborhood that is not a food desert.
    Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Years ago, The Castlebar was a neighborhood dive in Brighton.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • The next day, Riggio and I visited the neighborhood to get a feel for his roots — which led me to the church.
    David Waldstein, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The launch will start in the SoMa neighborhood and expand to more areas of the city if all goes well.
    Emily Dreibelbis Forlini, PCMAG, 11 Nov. 2024
  • The six-bedroom dwelling spans 8,300 square feet and rests at the end of a cul-de-sac in a gated neighborhood.
    Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 15 July 2024
  • It’s tucked away in the middle of a quiet neighborhood.
    Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Tell us about the new shop, the location and neighborhood.
    Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Chico held a big lead in the head-to-head contest to represent the Hegewisch and East Side neighborhoods.
    John Byrne, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2023
  • These are the kinds of things that happen in strong local neighborhoods.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Last year, more than 100 egrets formed a rookery in the Shady Oaks neighborhood in northwest Burleson.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The little ice cream shop has been in Woodstock for 10 years and is a neighborhood favorite.
    oregonlive, 12 July 2023
  • The bookstore in your neighborhood sits on a busy corner.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • And this spring, Gumbo Social will open a brick and mortar in the Bayview neighborhood.
    Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Kwele said that in his neighborhood, some of the poorest people had to travel for miles on foot.
    Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • This could mean walking on a treadmill or through the neighborhood.
    Matt Fuchs, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Old Town, the city's first neighborhood, now has one of San Diego's iconic gateway signs.
    Kate Murphy, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Born near the source of the Danube as Allied bombs were still falling in the spring of 1945, Kiefer made his ruined neighborhood his playground.
    Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • While the quality of its schools, jobs, and neighborhoods decreased, a new set of residents found their way to the city.
    Solcyré Burga, TIME, 21 June 2024
  • Either for me or for people like me or my neighborhood.
    Rob Reddick, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Convenient, efficient, stylish: In the right neighborhood, the 500e is all that and a bag of conch fritters.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The apps Nextdoor and Ring also allow neighborhood groups to post camera footage.
    Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2024
  • There’s no bow around this disaster; a neighborhood full of Black musicians burned to the ground.
    Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Those who didn't want to wait hours for a shuttle to Gobbler's Knob — located two miles uphill from Punxsutawney — made the trek on foot through residential neighborhoods brimming with Phil inflatables and patient homeowners.
    Chrissy Suttles, Axios, 2 Feb. 2025

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