How To Use Neighborly In A Sentence

He let a neighbourly grin slide over his foxy face.
Relations are more neighbourly now, stadium:mk offering 22,000 seats, 7,000 more than the requirement for a Heineken Cup quarter-final. Northampton and Ulster bring authentic rugby to plastic surrounds | Eddie Butler
Officers have recommended the scheme should be refused on the grounds it would be unneighbourly and an eyesore.
He was a pleasant and genial countryman whose neighbourly qualities were much to the fore throughout his life.
We have gone out of our way to be as friendly and neighbourly as possible but it has been thrown back in our faces.

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‘Members consider that their privacy will be greatly reduced and that the height of the projection, which is some 17 metres to the ridge height and two floors above the roof line of the club, is unneighbourly,’ he said.
In an attempt to remain neighbourly I inquired as to her need for assistance.
China has always attached great importance to developing friendly, neighborly ties with Japan.
All the signs are today that one of the basic problems preventing people co-operating together for the common good is the breakdown of neighbourly society.
Too bad it had to get to a lawsuit, for one would hope that neighbourly friendship would try a bit harder to resolve matters.
Though severely and repeatedly strained, the deal has come to be taken for granted as a linchpin of the fragile Middle Eastern order. But new stresses may test neighbourly relations as never before.
In many cases the visit of the rolling store was not rushed but was like a neighborly gathering of friends who built trust in each other.
If he come to see me" (as it has always been reckoned a piece of neighbourly kindness to visit the sick) "he speaks vanity; that is, he pretends friendship, and that his errand is to mourn with me and to comfort me; he tells me he is very sorry to see me so much indisposed, and wishes me my health; but it is all flattery and falsehood. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
I could have been neighborly and just asked him to stop, but he wasn't neighborly enough to consider his fellow students when he decided to smoke, so I called the cops.
The father of the family happened to be here being thoroughly neighbourly & good, but out of earshot of his womenfolk, and thus we learned what was actually going on.
It was ugly; it interfered with the letting of proper-sized houses in the neighbourhood; it ruined the tone of the neighbourhood; it was unneighbourly; it was contrary to the Local The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
None the less, the interwar identity of the small town as a moral, neighbourly, and character-building environment was a more complex civic identity than that of the booster years.
We have gone out of our way to be as friendly and neighbourly as possible but it has been thrown back in our faces.
Margosian, who was usually a neighborly sort, didn't even look up. EVERVILLE
Martha was a capital cook, and little Annie a sharp sentry; it was J. B.'s great dread that we'd arouse suspicion among the local people - for Americans are the nosiest folk on earth, prying into every newcomer's business, trying to get sight of his furnishings and guess how much money he's got (being neighbourly, they call it), and the arrival of six mysterious stalwarts was enough to set the countryside agog. THE NUMBERS
Ireland may well become more neighbourly but will Ireland in fact return to its tourism friendly ethos?
For many, especially the vulnerable, this neighbourly network of support can make a real difference to their quality of life.
And finally, formulaically, she invokes that neighborly, over-the-fence standard ‘common sense’ to pit us against those wacky liberal intellectuals.
China has consistently stressed friendly, good-neighbourly relations with adjacent countries and has actively promoted measures to establish bilateral trust.
In many ways this little Delaware County borough was an ideal place to raise a family - safe and neighborly, though she has a hard time thinking about it that way now.
He put out his hand in a friendly, neighborly way and smiled a tiny smile.
Although it has more than a million inhabitants, Cologne has managed to preserve its neighbourly character.
Assam is open to foreigners but some areas are riddled with bandits, while the ‘no man's land’ between unneighbourly India and Bangladesh is patrolled by bored but trigger-happy armies.
The noise would have provoked alarm and neighbourly concern.
Our staff are still the same skilled, helpful and - we hope - neighbourly people they have always been.
This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind.
There's a warm fug in the lounge of the Acomb Working Men's Club: drifting cigarette smoke mingled with the clink of glasses and neighbourly chat.
Another function of this neighborly friendship, then, is to widen the scope and prospects of her relationships.
A considerable number of those interviewed even feel ‘very unneighbourly?’
Some decent sound proofing for his new gaff would probably be the neighbourly thing to do. The Sun
The exchange and potlucks woo people who want to interact in a neighborly way.
Planting trees, he said, created bio-diversity, micro-climates, sucked up excess water and gave play spaces to children, while ideas such as using espaliered apple trees as hedges gave fruit, and focus to neighbourly exchanges. Guardian roundtable: ideas for urban development
I meant to have told you, but you are so grand in your lofty contempt of what you call gossip, but which I call good neighbourly intercourse! Springhaven
Needless to say, it ought to be run as an isolated user (so it can only trash its own files), maybe in a chroot, and ideally on a machine without network access (for it could, in theory, open a network socket and do something unneighbourly :-). Snell-Pym » Fuzz testing
I should add that this is not one of those cases familiar to the courts where neighbours behave in an unneighbourly and aggressive way towards each other.
I giggled in agreement with him as we passed; our solitary walks interrupted for a brief moment with neighbourly pleasantries, now to continue alone and quiet once again.
This neighbourly closeness extends beyond social pleasantries to a philosophy of making sure everyone on the island is taken care of.
Margosian, who was usually a neighborly sort, didn't even look up. EVERVILLE
Can anyone put a good case for allowing unneighbourly neighbours to bomb tiles off a little old lady's roof whenever they feel like it?
Treaties on good-neighbourly relations and on co-operation and mutual assistance between government ministries were also finalized.
And food this good might just be worth the wait, with a little bit of luck and neighbourly support the restaurant might be on the scene long enough to get its act together.
It was a neighbourly gesture of theirs.
I don't know what the fact sheet was about since it is of course illegal as well as unneighbourly to open mail not addressed to oneself, but I have my theories.
Another function of this neighborly friendship, then, is to widen the scope and prospects of her relationships.
The committee voted to refuse retrospective permission on the grounds the decking was too high and both detrimental and unneighbourly.
John she at once attacked for his past coolness and unneighbourly conduct in abstaining from ever calling upon her; and he, when he had entered the parlour, and was met by Eleanor with just sufficient confusion and reserve to make her more than ever interesting, and with a warmth that quite overcame him, felt the old fire in his heart burning with redoubled fury. Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
Therefore, where the United States had previously been described as unneighbourly, now it was, as in the poem, ‘alien’; the two countries were no longer divided by a ‘border,’ but more often, a ‘line.’
Ellen, who lived in Chapel Street, was a most kindly and neighbourly person, well liked by all, her passing is deeply regretted.
This neighbourly closeness extends beyond social pleasantries to a philosophy of making sure everyone on the island is taken care of.
As long as they avoid neighbourly confrontation and keep their congregations below a certain size (usually about 25), the Protestant ones are mostly tolerated, grudgingly.
Should she stay where she dwells, and retain this her mind, who could live quietly by her? for she will either be dumpish or unneighborly, or talk of such matters as no wise body can abide; wherefore for my part I shall never be sorry for her departure; let her go, and let better come in her room: twas never a good World since these whimsical Fools dwelt in it. The Pilgrim’s Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 1-99
For many, especially the vulnerable, this neighbourly network of support can make a real difference to their quality of life.
A: China upholds a foreign policy of good-neighborly friendship with neighboring countries, and maintains sound cooperative relations with all neighbors.
Good neighbors on both sides of the fence need to express their political disagreements without undermining neighborly good will and friendships.
The noise would have provoked alarm and neighbourly concern.
That unfriendly, unbrotherly, unneighbourly, as well as rash and unmannerly, Spurning of the Execution, and then sending it to John Adams diary 7, 21 March - 18 October 1761
I can't help thinking that if Chuck were alive, he would have handled this unsavory, unneighborly encounter much better than I, for he was an expert at defusing tense situations.
I could have been neighborly and just asked him to stop, but he wasn't neighborly enough to consider his fellow students when he decided to smoke, so I called the cops.
But now, the unneighbourly tale has taken a new and extraordinary turn. Times, Sunday Times
Telephones can be installed, emergency call-card systems operated and local neighbourly help recruited to reduce the isolation of many old people.
This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind.
The noise would have provoked alarm and neighbourly concern.
An open face is the essential tool for recognition and communication in a neighbourly society. The Sun
China persists in building a good - neighborly and partnership with its neighbors and strengthens regional cooperation constantly.
As regards the tests that a youth must pass before he can get a degree, I found that they have no class lists, and discourage anything like competition among the students; this, indeed, they regard as self-seeking and unneighbourly. Erewhon
These people, he said, would probably rest at some Parahuari village, where they would be sure to give a description of us, and so it might eventually come to the knowledge of our unneighbourly neighbour Runi that we had left Green Mansions
There has been lately a very great struggle between the two parties for the choice of these two magistrates, which had this amicable conclusion — namely, that they chose one of either side; so that neither party having the victory, it is to be hoped it may be a means to allay the heats and unneighbourly feuds which such things breed in towns so large as this is. A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722
Such an amount of good will and neighborly kindness also went into the mess, that I never could find the heart to refuse, but always received it with thanks, sipped it with hypocritical relish while he remained, and whipped it into the slop-jar the instant he departed, thereby gratifying him, securing one rousing laugh in the doziest hour of the night, and no one was the worse for the transaction but the pigs. Hospital Sketches
Singh said that India takes developing bilateral cooperative relations of good-neighborly friendship as an important part of its foreign policy.
Early spring means sugaring season - Cubby and Dan have a neighborly agreement with a nearby family who taps the Derbys' trees in exchange for fresh maple syrup.
Before long, however, the perky pensioner is running rings around the pair with an unending series of demands and unneighbourly behaviour that drives them up the wall.
In many cases the visit of the rolling store was not rushed but was like a neighborly gathering of friends who built trust in each other.
Cadfael had it on his conscience afterwards that it might well have been his neighbourly attentions that caused his companion to lay down his sickle under the tree, and forget to pick it up again when his youngest son, a frogling knee-high, came hopping to call his father to his midday bread and ale. The Devil's Novice
He let a neighbourly grin slide over his foxy face.
A deck presents a neighborly face to the street and offers a view of native plants and fruiting shrubs.
They would nod to her out of neighbourly politeness but that was where the connection ended. AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
Although it has more than a million inhabitants, Cologne has managed to preserve its neighbourly character.
It would spell out swingeing cuts in corporation tax and other unneighbourly acts that, if forced, we could retaliate with. Times, Sunday Times
With a neighborly pat of his wrist, she bustled out of the room. LOST BOY LOST GIRL
I giggled in agreement with him as we passed; our solitary walks interrupted for a brief moment with neighbourly pleasantries, now to continue alone and quiet once again.
China is ready to join hands with the Kyrgyz Republic to renew efforts in promoting the long-term good-neighborly and friendly cooperation.
Either way, open borders have not fostered neighbourly feelings. Times, Sunday Times
Ireland may well become more neighbourly but will Ireland in fact return to its tourism friendly ethos?
Despite being accompanied by a 1,100-strong petition, the plan was refused by SLDC on the grounds it was unneighbourly and it was not in character with Ford Park a Grade II listed building.
He said: ‘My view is that although the Holker estate is within its rights, it is an unneighbourly action.’
But, there may have been the drawback on this magnanimous morality, that its exponents held a true witness before Justice to be the next unneighbourly and accursed character to a false one. Our Mutual Friend
Soon, both couples have children, and settle into neighbourly domesticity.
With a neighborly pat of his wrist, she bustled out of the room. LOST BOY LOST GIRL
They indicated the willingness to make joint efforts to consolidate and develop China-Brunei good neighborly relations of friendship and cooperation on the present basis.
A spokesman for JD Wetherspoon said: ‘We don't see it as unneighbourly; it is well run, well managed, doesn't cause any problems in the area and we don't see that an extra hour will cause problems.’
We know that most people are decent, law-abiding and neighbourly.
Our staff are still the same skilled, helpful and - we hope - neighbourly people they have always been.
Too bad it had to get to a lawsuit, for one would hope that neighbourly friendship would try a bit harder to resolve matters.
China has always attached great importance to developing friendly, neighborly ties with Japan.
And so the miscreants trooped back home to Bean Street, perhaps to bandage the wounds of their neighbourly dispute.
He put out his hand in a friendly, neighborly way and smiled a tiny smile.
And food this good might just be worth the wait, with a little bit of luck and neighbourly support the restaurant might be on the scene long enough to get its act together.
Ellen, who lived in Chapel Street, was a most kindly and neighbourly person, well liked by all, her passing is deeply regretted.
He was a pleasant and genial countryman whose neighbourly qualities were much to the fore throughout his life.
Good neighbors on both sides of the fence need to express their political disagreements without undermining neighborly good will and friendships.
Does the cosmic tug and pull of these far-off fireballs (and our more neighborly planets) help shape our lives from birth?
None the less, the interwar identity of the small town as a moral, neighbourly, and character-building environment was a more complex civic identity than that of the booster years.
I don't say as they're actin 'unneighbourly in talking about the pleece, so long as they don't do no more than talk," said Beale, with studied fairness and moderation. Harding's Luck
We know that most people are decent, law-abiding and neighbourly.
I don't recall evangelizing being above loving one another and being neighborly. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
In many ways this little Delaware County borough was an ideal place to raise a family - safe and neighborly, though she has a hard time thinking about it that way now.
Despite their neighbourly friendliness and community spirit, each resident harbours a mysterious past. Times, Sunday Times

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