How to Use in the neighborhood in a Sentence

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  • The force of the blast set off at least one car alarm in the neighborhood.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Benjamin then handed out the bills to his friends in the neighborhood.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • There weren’t many restaurants like it in the neighborhood.
    — Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
  • A lot of those people are still living in the neighborhood.
    — WIRED, 22 June 2023
  • The city loosened zoning rules in the neighborhood, too, bringing apartments and renters to the area.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Some children in the neighborhood showed it to her after the shooting.
    — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The shooter or shooters were firing at a house in the neighborhood.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 7 July 2023
  • People in the neighborhood will help themselves and tell their friends.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
  • When this home was originally built, the homes in the neighborhood were all unique.
    — Allison Duncan, House Beautiful, 11 May 2023
  • What used to be a beef in the neighborhood or in the streets is now broadcast to everyone online, raising the stakes.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2023
  • More recently, Haraguchi has opened two new cafes in the neighborhood.
    — Caitie Kelly Julia Halperin Jinnie Lee Caitie Kelly Gisela Williams Mahira Rivers, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Over the past year, the neighbor described the Franke children’s presence in the neighborhood as dwindling.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The driveway can be used for parking in front, which is not an issue in the neighborhood, and outdoor living in the back.
    — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024
  • The delivery site was in front of Winn’s residence in the neighborhood cul-de-sac.
    — Silas Morgan, Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2024
  • For the past few days, the kids had been playing their music loudly, disrupting the peace in the neighborhood, the caller said.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Residents are able to use the golf course in the neighborhood, and a membership is not required for use.
    — Amber Bonefont, Sun Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Yamal was raised in the neighborhood of Rocafonda in Mataró, a city close to Barcelona.
    — Ben Morse, CNN, 14 July 2024
  • Market pricing now suggests that rates will end the year in the neighborhood of 4.75 percent.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
  • For months, out-of-state license plates, common in the neighborhood, drew second glances.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Package and liquor stores in South Boston will close at 4 p.m. on Sunday, while last call for bars in the neighborhood will take place at 7 p.m.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Now that Goei’s mansion has sold, there’s finally a comp in the neighborhood.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Eliot Hernández has been a surf instructor in the neighborhood for 15 years.
    — Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Folks would just know him for biking around town ... and just being a super-friendly guy in the neighborhood.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Wednesday after a report of shots fired in the neighborhood.
    — Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Break-ins and traffic are common in the neighborhood and crime would be worse if the barriers were gone, some neighbors said.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The 1834 Greek Revival townhome, part of a preserved row, played a role in the neighborhood’s bohemian past.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 22 Nov. 2023
  • As of last week, there were 23 shooting incidents with 27 victims in the neighborhood so far this year.
    — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 4 June 2024
  • Rhodes said the man had been down in the trench at the time of the collapse and appeared to be working with a company doing construction in the neighborhood.
    — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2024
  • The sentence on all counts could be made to run consecutively, which would lead to a sentence in the neighborhood of 400 years.
    — Gabriel J. Chin, Fortune, 10 June 2023
  • The man who was killed was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.
    — Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2024

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