Use neighbors in a sentence
Sentences ending with neighbors
- But the Mormons were badgered and harried again by their neighbors. [5]
- It was a two-story-and-a-half brick, and much more stylish than any of its neighbors. [5]
- I shall try to make the town better for it, and the state, and I shall try to elevate my neighbors. [9]
- It seemed fitting that this final word from one who had so long given happiness to the whole world should record a special gift to his neighbors. [5]
- Then she would steal down the stairs to Jethro on the doorstep: to Jethro who would sit there for hours at a time, to the wonder and awe of his neighbors. [9]
- Monsieur Philippe de St. Gre is a remarkable man, with certain vigorous ideas not in accordance with the customs of his neighbors. [9]
- The heavy forest shuts us solidly in on three sides there are no neighbors. [5]
- I like to see other people muddled now and then, because my own occasional dulness is relieved by a good solid background of stupidity in my neighbors. [6]
- It was the same on the property of Constantine, which lay at no more than a day's journey from that of Marcus; the two young couples were faithful friends and good neighbors. [10]
- Carriages were in readiness for him and his family, a band greeted him with music, and passing under a triumphal arch, he was driven to his renewed old home amidst the welcomes and the blessings of his loving and admiring friends and neighbors. [6]
Short sentences using neighbors
- We have no neighbors. [5]
More example sentences with the word neighbors in them
- Our houses are within a stone's throw, and yet in a whole day, from noon till noon, so old a friend could not find a few minutes to deliver the letters entrusted to him, or to call upon such near neighbors . [10]
- Major Rollins leaves with me very strong papers from the neighbors of these men, whom he says he knows to be true men. [7]
- I went, along with a good many of my neighbors, and it was a sight to see, I can tell you. [5]
- May the sickness which has fallen on your neighbors, spare you and yours. [10]
- Friends and neighbors were coming in and out; and the next person that came was the old minister, of whom, and of his colleague, the Rev. [6]
- All the neighbors went to court. [5]
- The oldest he was years not six, And the youngest only eleven months old, But often she had left them there alone, As, by the neighbors, I have been told. [5]
- If each of us could make his neighbors after his own pattern--then indeed! [10]
- Northerly it looked upon its own outbuildings and some unpretending two-story houses which had been its neighbors for a century and more. [6]
- How it roars up the wide chimney, sending into the air the signal smoke and sparks which announce to the farming neighbors another day cheerfully begun! [4]
- Lurida has stirred up our little community and its neighbors, so that we get essays on all sorts of subjects, poems and stories in large numbers. [6]
- The neighbors rose up and drove the Mormons out of Ohio, and they settled in Missouri. [5]
- Take it home to your neighbors and your graves, and I hope that it will be a long time before you arrive there. [5]
- Jake was going to play deef and dumb here, so the neighbors wouldn't know his voice. [5]
- He had begun to plan for his return, and concerning amusements at Stormfield for the entertainment of the neighbors, and for the benefit of the library which he had founded soon after his arrival in Redding. [5]
- The neighbors began to persecute, and apostasy commenced. [5]
- Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. [7]
- We've been in this house three months, and I don't believe that if we stayed three years any of the neighbors would call. [8]
- When he sees the value the intelligent and the well-to-do set upon material things, and their small regard for intellectual things and the pleasures of the mind, why should he not most passionately desire those things which his more fortunate neighbors put foremost? [4]
- Their piteous cry the neighbors heard, And then the cry of fire was given; But, ah! [5]
- Woon't some o' the neighbors come and offer to set up, without waitin' to be asked? [8]
- The newspaper details the morning after were read with that eager interest that the misfortunes of neighbors always excite. [4]
- Then it is the influence of fashion; and what is the influence of fashion but the influence that other people's actions have on our actions--the strong inclination each of us feels to do as we see all our neighbors do? [7]
- Her good neighbors, the doctor and his wife, come in at the little gate to cheer her. [9]
- Then there is the awful possibility that the neighbors at table may have nothing to say to each other; and in the best-selected company one may sit beside a stupid man--that is, stupid for the purpose of a 'tete-a-tete'. [4]
- We soon find that we are not so much worse off than most of our neighbors as we supposed. [6]
- The neighbors supposed that the engagement with Col. Selby had fallen through. [5]
- I and friends that lie with me founded and secured the prosperity of this fine city, and the stately bantling of our loves leaves us to rot in a dilapidated cemetery which neighbors curse and strangers scoff at. [5]
- Representing states and talking of national and even international affairs, as familiarly as neighbors at home talk of poor crops and the extravagance of their ministers, was likely at first to impose upon Philip as to the importance of the people gathered here. [5]
- And the neighbors talk about it, and lay all the blame on your uncle, of course, because he's a preacher and hain't got any business to quarrel. [5]
- And if you stood in a dark room and your neighbors in the next had lights, the shadows on your canvas told queer secrets sometimes! [5]
- I wish to state, also, not as a correction, but as matter of opinion, that Mount Hermon is not a striking or picturesque mountain by any means, being too near the height of its immediate neighbors to be so. [5]
- Cynthia had not spoken since she left the station, had not looked at him, had not asked for the friends and neighbors whom she had loved so well--had not asked for Jethro! [9]
- I remembered the speech that he had used and taught me, and how his neighbors had dubbed him "aristocrat. [9]
- The neighbors don't speak to each other now. [5]
- His neighbors would snatch the balance of his hair off in a second. [5]
- Ephraim loved to sit there of an evening and smoke his pipe and chat with Ezra Graves and the neighbors who dropped in. [9]
- He liked its quaintness, the primitiveness of the farmer-fisherman neighbors, he liked the sea. [4]
- It was a proud occasion for the widow, and she promised herself high satisfaction in showing off her fine foreign birds before her neighbors and friends--simple folk who had hardly ever seen a foreigner of any kind, and never one of any distinction or style. [5]
- I like family pride as well as my neighbors, and respect the high-born fellow-citizen whose progenitors have not worked in their shirt-sleeves for the last two generations full as much as I ought to. [6]
- He has not played such a role for England and its neighbors as Bismarck has played for Germany and the Continent, but he has been one of the most powerful influences in molding English action. [4]
- They are their own worst enemies, and do themselves a mischief each time they assail their neighbors. [3]
- Well, she is our next neighbor on one side, and there's another family that's our next neighbors on the other side; but there's a general coolness all around now, and we don't speak. [5]
- Country neighbors from Otradnoe, impoverished old squires and their daughters, Peronskaya a maid of honor, Pierre Bezukhov, and the son of their district postmaster who had obtained a post in Petersburg. [2]
- In a day or two Henry and one or two of his Clary-Grove neighbors came back for him again, and advertised his disappearance in the papers. [7]
- My friend went on summer vacation up into the fishing regions of our northern British neighbors, and carried this sermon with him, since he might possibly chance to need a sermon. [5]
- So I rode off to the neighbors and gave them the tale, and bade them come after nightfall as though to hang Campbell's thief, which they did, and they were near to smashing the door trying to get in the cabin. [9]
- Would that many of our countrymen, who think of the West as rough, might have known the quality of the Brinsmades and their neighbors! [9]
- The gem-cutter Heron, occupying one of the foremost cushioned seats, radiant with pride and delight in the red-bordered toga of his new dignity, clapped his big hands with such vehemence that his immediate neighbors were almost deafened. [10]
- I have not now, and never have had, any disposition to treat you in any respect otherwise than as my own neighbors. [7]
- And they did not; but the national spirit of unselfishness led them to divide up with neighbors who were not at the distribution, and next Sabbath the poor preachers could hardly keep countenance before their vast congregations. [5]
- If it would not be taxing you too much, I wish you would write me, telling the aspect of things in your country, or rather your district; and also, send the names of some of your Whig neighbors, to whom I might, with propriety, write. [7]
- With few exceptions Northern authors were not read in the South, and the literary movement of its neighbors, such as it was, from 1820 to 1860, scarcely affected it. [4]
- He neither smoked nor talked, but bending his head first to one side and then to the other watched the smokers with evident pleasure and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he egged on against each other. [2]
- One of my neighbors, a thorough American, is much concerned about the growth of what he calls the "hard-handed aristocracy. [6]
- Both of these neighbors run considerable to cats, and so I warned them about the trap, because their cats were pretty sociable around here nights, and they might get into trouble without my intending it. [5]
- Even these the neighbors mistook for Portuguese, though they thought the language bore some distant resemblance to German. [10]
- One of my neighbors has a cow, but no land; and he seems desirous to pasture her on the surface of the land of other people: a very reasonable desire. [4]
- Some of her neighbors had relations living in Philadelphia, and it seemed to them somehow a guarantee of respectability to have relations in Philadelphia. [5]
- But we, his neighbors and townsmen, feel that he was _ours_. [6]
- The facts are necessarily few, but we can reason from the laws of human nature as to what must be the feelings of the people of the South to their Northern neighbors. [6]
- And I, like my neighbors, unconsciously held back all I could, and threw my weight to the rear, but, of course, that did no particular good. [5]
- Never did a mountain seem so close; its big sides seemed at one's very elbow, and its majestic dome, and the lofty cluster of slender minarets that were its neighbors, seemed to be almost over one's head. [5]
- He knew something more about the history of Myrtle's adventure than any of his neighbors, and, among other things, that it had given Mr. Byles Gridley a peculiar interest in her, of which he could take advantage. [6]
- It doesn't bother me, but some of my old neighbors are just ruining themselves trying to keep the pace. [4]
- It seems to me all right that at the proper time, in the proper place, those who are less easily convinced than their neighbors should have the fullest liberty of calling to account all the opinions which others receive without question. [6]
- There was a little crowd round the dead mustang already, principally consisting of neighbors who had adjourned from the Doctor's house to see the scene of the late adventure. [6]
- As for the last of the three Ports, or Portland, it is getting too prosperous to be as attractive as its less northerly neighbors. [6]
- One ought to know something about his immediate neighbors at the table. [6]
- But, good neighbors, kind friends, I desire that you will not increase, by talk, a disappointment which you cannot assuage. [4]
- These neighbors had just finished disposing the body of a woman in it--a woman with a careworn, gentle face that had more the look of sleep about it than of death. [5]
- And now that it was to be war, and he had taken his stand uncompromisingly with the Union, the neighbors whom he had befriended for so many years could not bring themselves to regard him as an enemy. [9]
- The neighbors said it was the doctor first, then Emmeline, then the undertaker--the undertaker never got in ahead of Emmeline but once, and then she hung fire on a rhyme for the dead person's name, which was Whistler. [5]
- But the neighbors is real kind. [4]
- While the visitor is gazing at his vast shoes, which now can be used only as sledges, he will be told that the Giant was greatly respected by his neighbors as a man of ability and simple integrity. [4]
- In what friendly intercourse the neighbors can sit on these flat roofs! [4]
- I think that in the country village a good theatre would be a wholesome influence, satisfy a natural appetite indicated by the inquisition into the affairs of neighbors, and by the petty scandal. [4]
- With what interest I watched my kinsfolks, and neighbors as they filed past for the last look! [4]
- All at once I happened to look more closely at one of my neighbors, and saw that the youth was the very ideal of the Son of Mary. [6]
- The latter usually hum the airs while they are being sung, so that their neighbors may perceive that they have been to operas before. [5]
- How we served him, with the aid of McCann and Cowan and other neighbors, and how we were near getting into trouble because of the prank, will be seen later. [9]
- The neighbors helped him put out the conflagration, but they discouraged any more experiments of that sort. [5]
- By the time he was passing through the backyard, Mrs. Pratt, her servants, and a dozen half-dressed neighbors had joined the twins and the dead, and accessions were still arriving at the front door. [5]
- The neighbors who have leisure to help you in grape-picking time are all busy when devil-grass is most aggressive. [4]
- Laura went to Harding, the neighbors supposed to nurse Washington who had fallen ill there. [5]
- I helped to hang my neighbors for that it were peril to my own life to show lack of zeal in the master's cause; the others helped for none other reason. [5]
- Conventions and elections had come and gone, and the Honorable Heth Sutton had departed triumphantly to Washington, cheered by his neighbors in Clovelly. [9]
- Although Mr. Wetherell had at one time been actually a resident of Boston, he received quite as many cautions from his neighbors as Monsieur Dumollet. [9]
- That notion he got up here did look as handy as anything in the world; and how him and Si did sit up nights working at it with the curtains down and me watching to see if any neighbors were about. [5]
- The alarm was given, and the neighbors gathered and did their best to put out the flames, but the upper part of the house was destroyed, and with it were burned many papers of value to Emerson, including his father's sermons. [6]
- That tailor Billings, from Tennessee, wrote poetry that Homer and Shakespeare couldn't begin to come up to; but nobody would print it, nobody read it but his neighbors, an ignorant lot, and they laughed at it. [5]
- After we get fixed up comfortable for winter, kill a critter, have pigs, and make my own sassengers, then there ain't any neighbors comin' in, and that's what I like. [4]
- A party of filibusters from Zorah and Eschol captured the place, and lived there in a free and easy way, worshiping gods of their own manufacture and stealing idols from their neighbors whenever they wore their own out. [5]
- Carmen said she felt like kneeling at one of the little boxes and confessing--the sins of her neighbors. [4]
- But how to explain it--to the daughters and the neighbors? [5]
- Mr. Emerson has died; and we, his friends and neighbors, with this sorrowing company, have turned aside the procession from his home to his grave,--to this temple of his fathers, that we may here unite in our parting tribute of memory and love. [6]
- His kind neighbors did all they could to save his property and relieve his temporary needs. [6]
- For the first day or two of my sojourn at home I was here and there at all the neighbors, and heard a good deal about my life and character, some of which was not very pleasant, but very wholesome, doubtless, for me to hear. [4]
- His wife and daughter had always been kind neighbors to her; and she would not have willingly brought sorrow on them. [10]
- And on the contrary, the error of the neighbors of a lad in forecasting his career comes from the fact that they do not know him. [4]
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