How to Use neither in a Sentence

neither

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  • The standing's don't lie, and neither does the record book.
    Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The worst case is the flip-side: none of those things happen and neither do things in the U.S.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Politicians didn’t do that for you, and neither did the lawyers.
    William Baldwin, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • In fact, the Fed cannot know, and neither can anyone else.
    Paul Swartz, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The Ton does not forget such a juicy bit of gossip, and neither does the Queen.
    Katie Rife, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Last season, the Dodgers and Braves were the top two seeds in the NL and neither won a playoff series.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The cows don’t take days off, so neither do the drivers -- in rain, in snow, or on Packer game days.
    Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
  • These are neither safe nor effective ways to kill all the germs on your mask.
    Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2020
  • No two people age the same way, and indeed, neither do any two cells.
    Ellen Quarles, Fortune Well, 7 July 2023
  • The owner won’t know who found the tracker, and neither will anyone else.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Bowman didn’t start hot, and neither did the Red Raider offense.
    Dallas News, 27 Sep. 2020
  • The movie doesn’t ever have to decide about it, and neither does the audience.
    Simon Thompson, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Tauchman didn’t get his way, and neither did the Giants, who fell 3-2 in the opener of a two-game series.
    John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 June 2021
  • But flip-flops are neither good for your feet nor likely to win you an upgrade.
    Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Yet, there are grounds to believe that the parties are neither willing nor prepared to go to war.
    Elias Ferrer Breda, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Well, what about either and neither, which can be pronounced eyether and neyether or eether and neether?
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The rule, like everything else, is neither hard nor fast, but odds are the team dominating on the ground will win the game.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
  • But Gingrich didn’t go for it, and neither did any of his successors.
    Justin Papp, Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Wake Forest 7-footer Olivier Sarr, the No. 1 transfer in the country, hasn't lived up the hype and neither has his new team.
    Marcus Fuller, Star Tribune, 14 Jan. 2021
  • But that doesn’t fly and neither do the efforts to explain away Biden’s misstatement.
    Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Kansas City can’t stop the run, and neither can Buffalo.
    Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 30 Mar. 2021
  • So if the blue states’ lawsuit does not go anywhere, neither, in all likelihood, will the divide over the SALT cap.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2022
  • But the lawsuit never made it to trial, and neither did Tommy Bell.
    CBS News, 30 Apr. 2022
  • But the indirect cost of the quake could be much higher, and recovery will be neither easy nor quick.
    Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Wannier had no symptoms, and neither did any of his close contacts.
    Star Tribune, 21 Nov. 2020
  • But Flynn was neither charged with doing nor shown to have done the heinous things Sullivan railed about.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 1 Sep. 2020
  • These art thefts were neither authorized by the IRA nor welcomed.
    Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The video showed Johnson neither actively brandished the weapon nor fired any shots.
    Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 13 May 2022
  • That is not an ideal method: Some responding hands are neither strong nor weak.
    Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Russia’s elections are neither free nor fair, and serve essentially as a formality to extend Putin’s term in power, according to independent bodies and observers both in and outside the country.
    Rob Picheta, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024

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