How To Use Neighbourhood In A Sentence

A neighbourhood patrol can thus assume the proportions of an armed convoy.
Her name means happiness, but she is a widow with five children who makes ends meet by washing clothes for the neighbourhood and preparing injera, the unleavened bread prepared today as it was 1000 years ago.
A world reputation for jobs, and a ‘welcome to the neighbourhood’ attitude has historically created a city of immigrants and ethnic enclaves.
Their devotion, if extreme, is driven by one goal to reclaim their neighbourhood.
He believed he was ‘untouchable’ but his victims finally became sick of the yob and helped a specialist council unit to boot him out of their neighbourhood.

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The toddler waddles freely into a neighbourhood yard.
The story being whispered about the neighbourhood.
They delivered emergency aid to the camps, not to stricken neighbourhoods, thereby ensuring the exponential growth of those camps. Times, Sunday Times
Adding new homes to an existing neighbourhood is the best rebuttal to any scheme to clear out houses and build a high-rise.
September 13th, 2009 MICHAEL CAINE is calling on the U. K.'s leaders to reinstate national service in an effort to clean up the streets After shooting his new movie, Harry Brown, in London's most troubled neighbourhoods, Caine fears crime and drug use is out of control in his native Britain - and the government needs to do something drastic to stop youngsters from killing one another. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
After lunch we would trail around the neighbourhood which involved a lot of exploring of stream beds and ponds and railways.
That's them defending the commons of the beauty of the neighbourhood, combined with the commons of the airspace we share through which dandelion seeds fly.
Forgive me sounding preachy but the character in our neighbourhoods, heritage and iconic landscape will be utterly lost.
However, Frank's furtive visits to strange bars frequented by men in ascots and Cathy's friendship with Raymond, a noble black gardener, set the neighbourhood gossips tittering.
A localised gumma may develop in the neighbourhood of the angle of the mandible, or the whole of the body of that bone may be the seat of a diffuse gummatous infiltration Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
Solovetski monks and join the Kojeozerski community in the same neighbourhood, of which he became hegumen in 1643. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
On the Downbelows' debut, Toronto punk vets (ex-members of Trigger Happy, Tirekickers, et al.) gang together for an ode to their favourite rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood.
On the other, we are anxious about the impact of a mobile phone transmitter mast in our neighbourhood.
By now, the police were chasing protesters into various neighbourhoods, and throwing cluster bombs of rubber pellets at locals.
Ottawa has shown it has considered the question about the neighbourhood surrounding Iraq no more than it has given any thought to the question inside Iraq.
Candidates and officials of the neighbourhood community jointly organize the meetings.
The neighbourhood, however, is interesting enough on account of the curious aqueducts for supplying the town with water, and the Mercede forest which, in D'Urville's opinion, might more justly be called a coppice, for it contains nothing but shrubs and ferns. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
In fact, neither Cathy nor Frank express anything that might resemble an emotion until their bedroom door is locked and the neighbourhood of gossiping gnats is safely locked out of the hidden desperation of their unhappy marriage.
Moreover, the children are bussed out of their neighbourhood each day to a school of the father's choosing.
In the neighbourhood of Dacca about 200 lbs. of seed is sown to the beegah, measuring 80 cubits by 80, and the yield is from 640 to 800 lbs. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
The survey highlighted that 68 per cent of the residents feel safer now than they did before the Neighbourhood Wardens started.
Tentatively, I ventured out, then realised that half the neighbourhood was standing around gawping.
In the tithe map this ford is marked, the only one in that neighbourhood, and the cottage is also marked exactly in the position mentioned by Fanny, the only building so placed. Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
So might a concert pianist, accustomed to performing on a Steinway grand, have been shocked when they wheeled in an old joanna from a neighbourhood pub.
She doesn't seem cut out for this tough neighbourhood.
Face losing our soft power by closing off further enlargement and a bolder near neighbourhood policy. Times, Sunday Times
Though it is rarely discussed, few argue that the poor and oppressed have the political capital necessary to compete for the federal funding and social programs that often go to wealthier cities and neighbourhoods.
He thought it would win him extra respect in his neighbourhood, where murders, shoot-outs and drug deals were all part of life's rich tapestry.
At present some comprehensives are neighbourhood schools. Times, Sunday Times
An interactive CBC map shows another troubled region is in the suburb of Surrey, where Indo-Canadian gangs roam in the mainly ethnic Indian neighbourhoods. 2009 April 07 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
About 150 mainly student protesters carrying joss sticks and flowers gathered outside the bar in a wealthy neighbourhood of the capital and denounced its decorative use of sacred symbols and statues. Buddhist group protests, symbolically seals Buddha Bar in Indonesia
The Sac a commis is the growth of high dry situations, and invariably in a piney country or on it's borders. it is generally found in the open piney woodland as on the Western side of the Rocky mountain but in this neighbourhood we find it only in the praries or on their borders in the more open woodlands; Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
Five keen snappers received free photography tuition from a professional in a project supported by the Greater Woolwich neighbourhood renewal panel.
A military interpreter before he switched to journalism, he was streetwise; a Shiite who lived in a Sunni neighbourhood; a survivor.
Once again, a neighbourhood of questionable future value was cleared and numerous residents and businesses displaced. The Times Literary Supplement
The killer then sped off on the pillion seat of a motorbike and, with his accomplice, drove to a quiet neighbourhood and burned the bike in an obviously pre-identified secluded location.
Yesterday troops patrolled the areas worst hit by violence, while neighbourhood groups mounted street barricades to protect residents. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, they are reflecting the eclectic range of their own neighbourhoods, families and record collections. Times, Sunday Times
The blasts blew out the windows of nearby restaurants in the upscale neighbourhood.
The migration process frequently involves a chain of relatives from rural village to urban neighbourhood.
Perhaps even more important, severe maltreatment could bring shame and dishonour on the neighbourhood.
Black leaders in Washington have demanded a federal investigation into the use of paramilitary police units in poor neighbourhoods. Times, Sunday Times
The pedestrian-oriented commercial areas they left us lend themselves to neighbourhood produce shops, bakeries, delis and cafés.
I was in my neighbourhood in East Van, smoking a big fat bomber, and I had to go to the corner store.
For the past two years, he has also taken an interest in aviculture and manages a henhouse in his neighbourhood in Thiès, a town located 70 kilometers from Dakar. Kiva Loans
In a landmark legal case, they have persuaded a court to issue an Anti-Social Behaviour Order, which bans her from their neighbourhood.
A recent opinion poll showed that 89 percent of the public said they would oppose plans to bury waste in their neighbourhood.
Should drum beating or use of microphones and loudspeakers that disturbs the peace of neighbourhood be permitted?
A few weeks ago, flyers advertising a missing person appeared on lampposts and trees in our street and around the neighbourhood. Times, Sunday Times
She doesn't seem cut out for this tough neighbourhood.
However, O'Connell - whose family owned the public baths in the area - has sold out and plans to leave the neighbourhood.
They had owned a modest dry cleaning establishment in the neighbourhood. The Times Literary Supplement
There will also be a push for more people to become special constables or join Neighbourhood Watch schemes. The Sun
The entire neighbourhood had gathered, quite unbelieving of the charge.
Plans to build a new nightclub in the neighbourhood have enraged local residents.
We are advocating a new cultural awareness for pupils in all schools from all neighbourhoods.
What we term villages barely exist, and the nearest approach to them is a group of farms with a church in the neighbourhood. Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
Children in one of the country's poorest neighbourhoods have chalked up an astounding improvement in exam scores.
Do anything you wish for them while they are in the neighbourhood. Emily Fox-Seton
Plans to build a new nightclub in the neighbourhood have enraged local residents.
Houses in the neighbourhood of Paris are extremely expensive.
As long as the policing pledge is mentioned to all callers I am sure they will be happy with no actual response (as resonse officerS are dealing with neighbourhood ASB, … NO N/HOOD on duty … for a change. .or commited at meetings …) grrrrrrrrrrrr soz, but it would b nice if EVERYONE actualy pulled their weight (please no more “NOT WITHIN MY REMIT”). Policing Pledge Response Times – The Ugly Truth! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
With fatherlessness a growing problem, this failure wreaks havoc, particularly in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Times, Sunday Times
A Ferris wheel pokes above the palm trees in the affluent district of Zaitoona; at neighbourhood funfairs, parents usher their children on to the rides, slides and merry-go-rounds.
Sets out an action plan, with practical advice on managing changing demand at the neighbourhood level.
The letter went on to complain of paper boys yelling out the news, musicians disturbing whole neighbourhoods, and drunks “who choose to sing and holloa up and down our streets and squares.” Sounds of Victorian London
While waiting for all this to occur, we'll haul our clothes to the neighbourhood laundrette.
Most cooking is done in communal kitchens in the neighbourhood and purchased from street stalls that heave under bags of fruit and vegetables of all kinds.
The gross revenue per annum is usually in the neighbourhood of £500,000, say $2,000,000. What Is To Become of the British Protectorates?
Often the fact is that we have plenty of time for walking the dog in our neighbourhoods but we seldom spend the time to take a walk to be with our parents.
Just a few months ago we were all lining up to fellate Macmillan for standing up to neighbourhood bully Amazon and now comes the revelation that company reps in a part of the world that basically runs on bribes made bribes in a bid for a textbook contract. So far to fall…
In this case, the neighbourhood is Queens, the young man is newcomer Rob Brown, and the mentor character is Sean Connery, who plays the titular Forrester, a reclusive, J.D. Salingeresque author.
What right have these thoughtless people to intrude their noise on the whole neighbourhood?
The question is, how do you reattach neighbourhood to neighbourhood?
When enough has been collected in one neighbourhood to load a casco or other province boat, it is despatched to their camarine at Manilla, where after being taken from the original pilone, if it has come from Pampanga, it is mixed up together, and placed in another one, with an opening at the conical part, which is placed over Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850
Cheap and cheerful in a neighbourhood that's full of life, with ramshackle old rum shacks and popular picnic areas. Times, Sunday Times
Gangs of criminals are confounding expectations by helping to reduce the fear of crime through making their neighbourhoods a safer place.
There's his amusing shot of the neighbourhood barber at work as the neighbourhood goat noses about.
The story being whispered about the neighbourhood.
As well as vandalism, it will target drunken louts and unruly gangs who make neighbourhoods no-go areas.
In a properly organised rural neighbourhood could be developed that higher kind of attraction which is suggested by the very word _neighbourhood_. The Rural Life Problem of the United States Notes of an Irish Observer
During the period when the funds were employed in conformity with the testator's design, the authorities, in their wisdom, ignored limitations of age, birth, and neighbourhood, and thus any member of the University, sophist or questionist, bachelor or master, was entitled to a share of the benefit. The Customs of Old England
A quiet neighbourhood; no-one about but the occasional delivery man.
A short stroll from the Montessori school and one street over from the big Victorian house with the pool where they give lessons to all the neighbourhood kids. Going Placidly Beyond The Noise And Haste | Her Bad Mother
a species of nightshade, which is to be found abundantly in the neighbourhood of Jericho. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time
He is more like your friendly neighbourhood uncle with a passion for sports.
They live in a wealthy/poor/friendly neighbourhood.
_Calcium nitrate_, Ca (NO_3) _2·4H_2O, is a highly deliquescent salt, [v. 04 p. 0972] crystallizing in monoclinic prisms, and occurring in various natural waters, as an efflorescence in limestone caverns, and in the neighbourhood of decaying nitrogenous organic matter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
Another racecourse striving for closer affinity with its neighbourhood is Newbury. Times, Sunday Times
With no buses in sight and taxis unwilling to stop in such a volatile neighbourhood, he merely lit up a cigarette and ambled back to his hotel. Times, Sunday Times
It was a car from outside the immediate neighbourhood.
For infrequent visitors, the neighbourhood becomes that much more lived-in and intimate.
For me, one of the principal charms of New York City is that it is home to some of the greatest jazz figures in history, who are commemorated with plaques, signs or street names in neighbourhoods where they lived.
Artists and antique dealers have moved in, giving the neighbourhood a raffish bohemian energy.
Neighbourhood Watch is of course synonymous with the bright yellow stickers displayed in windows and on lamp posts to ward off undesirables.
It would not be the first time that the neighbourhood gangs had taunted me. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
Terrible havoc has been wrought in the neighbourhood of the sea front. Times, Sunday Times
He wished to put a sun-dial above it, and accordingly wrote to a well-known dialler in the neighbourhood. The Book of Sun-Dials
Added Johannson, ‘In order to densify Ambleside, to bring more tourists into the neighbourhood, to entice more shoppers and satisfy the merchants' need for foot traffic, many more people and cars will have to enter the area.‘
Asking a cab driver to break a sawbuck is impossible, requiring a swing past the neighbourhood where sidewalk money-changers do their business. Thestar.com - Home Page
They were watching the TV news as the canal levee was breached again, flooding their neighbourhood anew.
Suddenly the carnival-like atmosphere disappeared, and my neighbourhood began to resemble a warzone. Times, Sunday Times
We go to eat at a vegetarian curry house in the Indian neighbourhood; on the street people hang out in front of the Bollywood cinema.
Sir Michael arrived 30 minutes early for yesterday's ceremony so he could drive around his old neighbourhood, where his father was a fish porter and his mother a charlady.
It is part of our strategy to see more activity at street level, making the neighbourhood a more happening place.
But we lived in a middle-class neighbourhood and I met with a lot of disapproval.
Many extraordinary changes, of rare interest to the physiographer and geologist, have actually taken place along the coast of Izumo and in the neighbourhood of the great lake. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series
Is he not accounted an exemplary citizen "and a pretty tall talker" in his own neighbourhood, and where on "the univarsal airth" would you find a more enlightened public opinion? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
The fictional plot centred around the Yamakasi, a group of traceurs despised by the police for causing havoc in the neighbourhood.
Before crossing the 50th meridian, the undulations arising from the distribution of land and water in the neighbourhood of these vast inland seas would receive considerable elucidation from the shorter intervals of observation, and after passing the 50th meridian the extent of undulation, as compared with that observed by the more southerly vessels, would be more distinctly marked by the three-hourly series. The Hurricane Guide Being An Attempt To Connect The Rotary Gale Or Revolving Storm With Atmospheric Waves.
And check it out you should - it's a pleasant, neighbourhoody spot, with friendly staff and a relaxed atmosphere.
The neighbourhood managers' tasks will vary according to circumstance.
Now that it has been returned to its brick exterior the neighbourhood has breathed a collective sigh of relief. Times, Sunday Times
After the shooting,it was some hours before the police could restore calm to the neighbourhood.
Groups of citizens have formed ad hoc neighbourhood watch schemes and started farms. Times, Sunday Times
I had spotted it one evening in a marked-down bin at Variety Stores, the neighbourhood shop to which we went for everything from safety pins to cornflakes.
That we recommend that Relief Committees should be allowed to sell food under first cost to the destitute, in their respective neighbourhoods, and that their doing so should not disentitle them to The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
I think the hose is lovely, personally, I think it may clash a little in such a “colonial neighbourhood”. The Muston Street House in Sydney
A bill was passed disfranchising all such persons as had voluntarily stayed in neighbourhoods occupied by the British troops; their offence was called misprision of treason. The Critical Period of American History
The department's aim is to shrink the window of opportunity for crime through measures such as personal safety talks, partnership working and Neighbourhood Watch schemes.
But even if not, and let's assume that they don't have sponsors (they do), a top-end hotel room in Mysore costs in the neighbourhood of Rs 4000, if memory serves us right. Archive 2009-03-01
The neighbourhood is looking particularly precarious as summer approaches. Times, Sunday Times
Prussian troops cantoned in the neighbourhood of Hamburg. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
The Puthusserymugal experiment is an effort to revive the art of unbaked pottery, as old as the legend of ‘Thrikkakara Appan’, by women under a neighbourhood group working with the Kudumbasree.
More than a dozen neighbourhoods that previously housed hundreds of thousands of people are deserted. Times, Sunday Times
This time, however, the birds were starting to stir and make noise, and a neighbourhood cat was stalking one in the grass that was already making a grab for a worm or two.
They're photographic bricolage, re-interpreting neighbourhood texts in radical ways.
Pulling a much-used library out of a community could start a chain of events toward destroying the intricate social webs which make neighbourhoods liveable.
However, the breed du jour for people who want to intimidate their neighbourhood is the pit bull, so the number of pit bull attacks is growing. We get a bad rap
The London-born, Turkish-Cypriot artist has previously aped advertising's slick appeal, from photorealist paintings of his niece picking flowers in Cyprus, to covering his East End neighbourhood with billboard posters bearing his name in a cool, chunky font. This week's new exhibitions
Teenagers are retaliating against being pigeonholed as anti-social yobs by holding a day of neighbourhood action.
It is met with in Bnature only compounded with other bodies, in nitrous Tammoniac, or in common fal ammoniac, which is Ifotr. ecimcs found in the neighbourhood of volcanoes, lor coal fnincs which have burnt for a long time. The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated: On the Principles of Modern Philosophy. By G ...
This single parent family would have been unable to rent privately in this same neighbourhood.
We aim to build a successful new community which integrates with nearby neighbourhoods, including Meadlands.
I hated the voice from behind me, that cut through the wondrous strains of music being wafted to us in that green and prosperous neighbourhood through powerful speakers.
The ash and gaseous products of the combustion are spread across our school grounds and the surrounding neighbourhoods.
It can be quite a craze in a neighbourhood for a while and then almost disappear.
Her parents fear that, living in this neighbourhood, she might stray into the wrong company.
Graffiti is a nuisance, it lowers the tone of the neighbourhood and everybody's quality of life suffers.
Criminal behaviour seems to be the norm in this neighbourhood.
Feral children roaming neighbourhoods do cause great distress.
It is after midnight and Juca says it's time to go to the neighbourhood's regular Sunday night baile.
Besides that part of the mountain which thus fell in, a large extent of ground in its neighbourhood was ingulfed. Wonders of Creation
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
Learn how to forage for food safely and successfully, and get tips on what you can find in your neighbourhood this autumn. Times, Sunday Times
A pale yellow sky rose behind the brick neighbourhood, and with agonised soul the woman viewed its plausive serenity. Esther Waters
The story being whispered about the neighbourhood.
Whole neighbourhoods were uprooted and displaced. The Times Literary Supplement
People liked seeing their friendly local/neighbourhood bobby on his beat.
It would not be the first time that the neighbourhood gangs had taunted me. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
On leave, many of your men gravitate towards the Piccadilly neighbourhood, where, despite the black-out, rationing and high prices, a certain spirituous gaiety is still achieved, but this is more likely to lower the bank account than to raise the view of the earnestness of our war-effort. Dunkirk to Dieppe and Beyond
Other neighbourhoods in the city offer foodies a choice of Chinese, Portuguese or Greek food.
Councillors say plastic-framed windows lower the tone of the neighbourhood.
One neighbourhood solved the problem by systematically poisoning the stray dogs with pesticides.
The car has just skidded to a halt in a quiet neighbourhood. Times, Sunday Times
Mevagissey I fear I should stand but little chance of being invited to dine off star gazy pie (2); but for fear my reader should be from that neighbourhood, I beg him to understand that I do not think them better, but, in my individual opinion, as good. A Sailor of King George
One day Scanlan, who was McMurdo's fellow boarder, re - ceived a note from McGinty inclosing one from Evans Pott, which informed him that he was sending over two good men Lawler and Andrews, who had instructions to act in the neighbourhood; though it was best for the cause that no particu - lars as to their objects should be given. Chennai
Neighbourhood associations argued that non-owner-occupied domiciles, such as lodging houses, do not contribute to the community and degrade quality of life in their neighbourhoods.
There are many things that are better here, a strong sense of community in the neighbourhood, is just one of them. Advisor: Was it cruel to let poor kids in India play with my iPod? Boing Boing
With the neighbourhood getting persistently more aggressive in its campaign against the Samuels, and David finding a place on his school cricket team, the stage is set for a dramatic final few reels.
Pensilvany country, to a cousin of his of the same name residing in the neighbourhood of this very town of Bala in Merionethshire, where you and Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
I'd looked forward to something of a thrilling or unknown character, and they turned out to be mere dogs; just little brown-and-white dogs that you wouldn't notice if you hadn't been excited by their names; kind of yapping mutts that some parties would poison off if they lived in the same neighbourhood with 'em. Somewhere in Red Gap
The skeletons of grand buildings haunt the graveyard that once was a bustling neighbourhood. Times, Sunday Times
Mermaids are supposed to abound in the ponds and ditches in this neighbourhood. Careful mothers use them as bugbears to prevent little children from going too near the water.
I daresay a quarter of an hour's practice two or three times a day for a week or so will deliver me from the absurd necessity of having to call in the assistance of the neighbourhood to communicate my bits of news to you; not to say that dictation is only a degree less awkward than left-handed penmanship, having never tried it before in my life. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
To get more information about this neighbourhood we talked to one of the volunteer greeters who staff the Chicago Cultural Center and offer their local expertise to visitors free of charge.
Crowds of the _élite_ of the neighbourhood were hastening into Islamabad, where the "tamasha," which we came upon at Bejbehara, is to be continued to-morrow. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
Or," she writes, "it could just be that women with more education and more money relate on a subconscious level to the young and handsome Barack and Michelle Obama, with their white-porticoed mansion in one of the cooler Chicago neighbourhoods and her Jimmy Choo shoes. Archive 2008-03-01
They play the offspring of two warring criminal families who join forces to try and bring peace to the neighbourhood.
I used to frequent my parents' neighbourhood, as I was very enamoured of the atmosphere there.
In the light of these trends the concepts of neighbourhood or patch have become less relevant to civic self-determination.
From my own experience of reading parties, I should select as their peculiar characteristics, a tendency to hats and caps of such remarkable shapes, as, if once sported in the college quadrangle, would be the subject of a common-room _instanter_; and, among some individuals (whom we may call the peripatetic philosophers of the party) a predilection for seedy shooting-coats and short pipes, with which they perambulate the neighbourhood to the marvel of the aboriginal inhabitants; while those whom we may class with the stoics, display a preference for dressing-gowns and meerschaums, and confine themselves principally to the doorways and open windows of their respective lodgings. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
All have been ‘sterilised’ and are free enjoy the run of the immediate neighbourhood, without adding to the number of ownerless cats and dogs.
It would be a case, not of bigamy but trigamy; the neighbourhood or the magistrates should interfere. The Times Literary Supplement
A military interpreter before he switched to journalism, he was streetwise; a Shiite who lived in a Sunni neighbourhood; a survivor.
A federal initiative called Project Safe Neighbourhoods (PSN) pays for the programme; the federal district attorney directs it.
The vicar was non-resident, and an elderly curate-in-charge ministered to this parish and another in the neighbourhood. The Parish Clerk
I should also say that I often use the term neighbourhood because it captures the sense of proximity, friendship and mutual assistance which characterises Australia and Thailand : A Shared Future
A criminal gang terrorized the neighbourhood.
The neighbourhood surrounding the Medical Academy was the biggest surprise as transactions there were few.
I don't know if it's just a phase, or separation related, but as we walk to school, or around the neighbourhood at the weekend, they both hold on for dear life, as if they might mislay me somewhere between the supermarket and the house. Diary of a separation
The air in summer is reckoned unwholesome by the exhalations arising from stagnant water in the neighbourhood of the city, which stands in the midst of a fertile plain, low and marshy: yet these marshes have been considerably drained, and the air is much meliorated. Travels through France and Italy
A local in Westchester County uses the word "arriviste" in a sentence explaining how Richard Gere cut down 200 trees in the neighbourhood without permission. Edmonton Sun
For 13 years the old government had failed to tackle persistent antisocial behaviour in one of London's most dysfunctional neighbourhoods: Downing St. Setting fire to speeches, throwing bricks through policy windows, the Blair Babes goody-goodies lived in terror of the Brown Shirt gang which had cocked a snook at authority. After Mandelson's storm, John Prescott calms – and charms – the Lords
For example, sanctimonious relief initially greeted a survey that showed the model republic to have got its best support in the referendum from voters in the more affluent urban neighbourhoods.
A gunfight also unfolded yesterday in Monterrey, northern Mexico as Army and drug hitmen battled it out in a suburban neighbourhood.
It particularly bothers the ladies because it brings horrible people into the neighbourhood. Times, Sunday Times
A court has gagged the Wandsworth Guardian to prevent it naming two boys accused of terrorising and vandalising their neighbourhood.
Day-to-day life is, for the most part, life lived within a particular neighbourhood, set of neighbourhoods, city, or urban region.
His immediate instinct is to share his good fortune with the poor and there's much comic mileage in his attempts to feed the homeless at a pizza restaurant and push the cash through neighbourhood letter boxes.
You drive through a neighbourhood of large, pricy houses with flashy cars on the drive. Times, Sunday Times
The Ringmaster System will enable schools to rapidly receive information from police or Neighbourhood Watch on everything from vandalism to prowlers.
Some women are afraid to walk the streets of their own neighbourhood for fear of being harassed by johns in passing cars.
Old Keltie, the landlord, who had bestowed his name on a bridge in the neighbourhood of his quondam dwelling, received the carrier with his usual festive cordiality, and adjourned with him into the house, under pretence of important business, which, I believe, consisted in their emptying together a mutchkin stoup of usquebaugh. The Abbot
These neighbourhood joints are often obscure, and the upstairs tenants are likely to keep these little secrets to themselves for fear that if Gus in the lobby gets discovered, there will be a lineup.

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