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How to use neighborhood in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Neighborhood means the residential area near one's home. Example: “He lives in my neighborhood.”

Examples of neighborhood by meaning

nounThe residential area near one's home.

  • He lives in my neighborhood.

nounThe inhabitants of a residential area.

  • The fire alarmed the neighborhood.

nounA formal or informal division of a municipality or region.

  • We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.

nounAn approximate amount.

  • He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.

nounThe quality of physical proximity.

  • The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.

nounThe quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each other; proximity.

  • Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.

nounThe set of all cells near a given cell used to determine that cell's state in the next generation.

  • In fact, it looks at the number of states and the neighborhood of the rule (determined by the filename), and decides whether to make it a lookup-table, or a "computed-function" rule.1990 July 9, David Hiebeler, “Languages for programming cellular automata”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
  • Universal: Is able to simulate other CA, the neighborhood size may be limited but the number of cell value should be unlimited (big neighborhoods can be transformed into multivalued cells).2005 September 7, IzI, “reversible universal 1D CA?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

More sentences with neighborhood

  • There's a strange story running around the neighborhood that you had a miscarriage last year.From the entry run
  • Most of the city got service back yesterday, but my neighborhood is still out.From the entry out
  • The Upper East Side is an affluent neighborhood in New York City.From the entry affluent
  • I grew up in a poor neighborhood; money was very tight, but we made do.From the entry tight
  • I knew it had been a victory when I heard the jubilations coming from that neighborhood.From the entry jubilation
  • The rich people in that neighborhood were stuck up and not friendly at all.From the entry stuck up
  • There were two competing groceries in the neighborhood, but neither of them had tasty food.From the entry groceries
  • Folks in our neighborhood come from every walk of life, prince and pauper, investor and janitor.From the entry walk of life
  • The flaming debris kept the firefighter well back, and the sparks threatened the neighborhood.From the entry flaming
  • The incessant flashing of the neon sign kept the neighborhood awake.From the entry flashing
  • In that neighborhood, you could find a dealer for any drug, a whole pharmacy of chemical distractions.From the entry pharmacy
  • I wouldn't put a high-end stereo in your car in this neighborhood if I were you.From the entry high-end
  • The census overcounted people in some neighborhoods, and undercounted them in others.From the entry overcount
  • After meeting up with Simon, the two of us banged around the neighborhood.From the entry bang around
  • And being in close neighborhood with the enemy we were necessitated to be pretty alert.From the entry in close neighborhood
  • Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.From the entry school
  • The neighborhood is a well-known harbor for petty thieves.From the entry harbor
  • The gang continued to terrorize the neighborhood.From the entry terrorize
  • The neighborhood has been spackled with coffee shops.From the entry spackle
  • They're going to trash out the neighborhood.From the entry trash out
  • The community worked to clean up the vandalized neighborhood.From the entry vandalized
  • The fight jumped off in my own neighborhood.From the entry jump off
  • That's a bad neighborhood for brokers: too many FSBOs.From the entry FSBO
  • The neighborhood is full of midrise apartment blocks.From the entry midrise
  • During Snovid, our entire neighborhood lost water and power, so we had to stay at our cousins' place for a week.From the entry Snovid
  • The street ended out in a rough neighborhood.From the entry end out
  • He cased up the nicest houses in the neighborhood.From the entry case up
  • The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.From the entry blanket
  • They live in a residential neighborhood.From the entry residential
  • The old families in the neighborhood look down on him as a latecomer, his family only arrived in the 18th century, too nouveau for them.From the entry latecomer
  • The patrolman had the misfortune to be assigned a beat that ran past the house of Ms. McDougall, a notorious prattler and neighborhood gossip.From the entry prattler
  • Manson added, sitting in her favorite cafe in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles this April.2025 June 2, Lizzy Goodman, quoting Shirley Manson, “Shirley Manson, the Unexpected Godmother of Rock”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry Los Feliz

Meaning of neighborhood

  1. noun The residential area near one's home.
  2. noun The inhabitants of a residential area.
  3. noun A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.

Full definition of neighborhood

Questions about neighborhood in a sentence

How do you use neighborhood in a sentence?
Neighborhood is used as a noun. For example: “He lives in my neighborhood.”
What is a short sentence with neighborhood?
“He lives in my neighborhood.”
What does neighborhood mean?
Neighborhood means the residential area near one's home.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: neighborhood (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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