Example sentences for: neighborhood

How can you use “neighborhood” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Thirty years ago, ABC would not televise Abbie Hoffman's American flag shirt on the Dick Cavett Show ; last week it was available at a street fair in my neighborhood in the form of silk underwear.

  • With Culkin on Henson's shoulders, the pair is able to outwit neighborhood bullies and to overcome personal obstacles.

  • The most famous examples--Megan's Law (federal: requires notifying a neighborhood of the presence of a convicted sex offender), the Jimmy Ryce Act (Florida) and Stephanie's Law (Kansas: both provide for the commitment to a mental hospital of dangerous repeat sex offenders after the expiration of their prison terms)-- are but the tip of a legislative iceberg that, the Post reports, currently consists of at least 50 such laws added to the books in the past 18 months.

  • That would be like the "untrained" 6-year-old who gets daddy's Glock down from the closet shelf, or the drunk boyfriend who gets out his old service revolver and goes over to ex-girlfriend's house, or your convicted-felon neighborhood drug dealer who bought his streetsweeper from a guy who, it turns out, bought three dozen of them at a gun show.

  • The Pareto optimal discount may be in the range of 4.5¢, while the savings at the margin appear to be in the neighborhood of 6¢.


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