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neighborhood

A neighborhood is part of a town or city. They live in an Italian neighborhood on the west side of the city. Somebody or something's neighborhood is the area, people, or ideas around or near them. He goes to church on Sundays and has lunch at a restaurant in his neighborhood. The phone costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $500.

neighborhood

(= vicinity, locality, neighbourhood, neck of the woods) a surrounding or nearby region the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville it is a rugged locality he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods (= neighbourhood) people living near one another it is a friendly neighborhood my neighborhood voted for Bush an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community) an ethnic neighborhood (= region) the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in 'in the region of') it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job the price is in the neighborhood of $100

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Simple sentences

She was different from most women in the neighborhood, for she was able to read and write.
She attracted all the young men in the neighborhood.
There is a toy shop in the neighborhood.
Do you live in this neighborhood?
Tom doesn't live in this neighborhood.
If I showed you my house, my neighborhood back then, would you understand where I am from?
There was a big fire in my neighborhood.
I'm a regular at a restaurant in this neighborhood. Let's have lunch there today.
There are a handful of naughty boys in my neighborhood.
A fire broke out in the neighborhood yesterday.
There has been another case of cholera in the neighborhood.
Please drop in when you happen to be in the neighborhood.
Don't set foot in that neighborhood.
The swimming pool is used in common by all the children in the neighborhood.
The Smiths live in my neighborhood.
Is gas available in this neighborhood?
The whole neighborhood mourned his death.
On New Year's Day, many people visit neighborhood shrines.
A fire broke out in this neighborhood last night.
We live in the neighborhood of the school.
I am familiar with this neighborhood.
He moved into my neighborhood.
He gets along well with the people in his neighborhood.
He doesn't live in my neighborhood.
I don't feel safe walking in that neighborhood at night.
I live in this neighborhood.
This is the best seafood restaurant in the neighborhood.

Movie subtitles

All the guys in my family and neighborhood have been drooling over her.
My father, rest his soul, used to say a neighborhood is like an organism, a living thing, always changing, always needing something.
Maybe this neighborhood's not so bad after all.
It's a map of our neighborhood, with the Murphys' house circled in skull and crossbones.
That's the Jewish neighborhood?
Why, they don't matter a row of gingerbread compared to the schemes i've got for bettering this neighborhood.
I stay in the neighborhood. and, hearing of your master's illness, I took the liberty of calling.
It's so penny-ante she's cleaning up 12,000 a week just around a few neighborhood stores and most of the bets are dimes and nickels.
I ain't heard of anyone being tomahawked or scalped in the neighborhood in a while.
Deducting the taxes. it amounts to something in the neighborhood of 20 million dollars.
A lot of quick accidents around here for a quiet neighborhood.
It's a safe neighborhood.
Where you stopping? - A room at my old neighborhood on Dock Street, number 24.
Never bother anybody in your own neighborhood.
You'd have a home, plenty of money. the respect of the entire neighborhood.
I thought I'd better get out of the neighborhood. if I didn't want to get into trouble.
Any new dogs in the neighborhood?
The only watering hole in the whole neighborhood.
A room at my old neighborhood.. onDockStreet,number24.
This neighborhood don't change much. Know that?
Passing out beer to the neighborhood kids.
Is there a tourist camp in the neighborhood?
This is our neighborhood!
Just think, one of the toughest kids in our neighborhood turning out to be the great Tommy Rogers.
Maybe this neighborhood's not so bad after all. Those kids are pretty good.
You're the laughing stock of the neighborhood.
Yes. If it's a nice neighborhood.
He would be happier in no neighborhood.
I do. I could take you there. It's a safe neighborhood.
You know, you were right the other day. This neighborhood don't change much.
Passing out beer to the neighborhood kids. Throwing dollar bills like confetti.
It's this neighborhood that frightens me.

News and current affairs

However, it comes at a time when the Union's eastern neighborhood faces severe challenges, with the financial and economic crisis hitting many of the partner countries hard.
Compounding the challenge are the economic sanctions imposed by the US and Europe in response to President Vladimir Putin's aggressive policies toward Russia's immediate neighborhood.
Beyond Gaza, the rise of political Islam in the Arab Spring countries, particularly Egypt and Tunisia, has created a more Hamas-friendly neighborhood.
People who know the frightening neighborhood of Tor di Quinto, where Giovanna Reggiani was killed have harsh words to say about the neglect and indifference of Rome's city government.
On April 5, 2003, a civilian neighborhood in Basra was bombed.
Potential international risks go beyond the immediate neighborhood.
They, together with wiser European leaders elsewhere, understand that this will require the appropriate forms of solidarity, including a unified foreign policy that can address the problems in Europe's neighborhood.
With the decision of its member states to send several thousand soldiers to Lebanon to implement the UN cease-fire resolution 1701, the European Union has taken the most significant decision yet within its Neighborhood Policy.
Can the EU in fact be able to emerge as a stabilizing political force in the most dangerous area of conflict within Europe's immediate geopolitical neighborhood?
Europe's neighborhood is poor and dangerous.
The US retreat from Iraq signaled the limits of its engagement, and the problems in the EU's immediate neighborhood - not just in Syria, but also to the east and the south - are now knocking on its door.
Nor has the European Neighborhood Policy gathered any momentum, while the EU's treatment of Turkey is pushing an important ally in the wrong direction.
The shooting, by automatic weapon fire, took place in broad daylight in a largely Roma neighborhood, where the grandmother of one of the victims lived.
Europe cannot once again remain passive in the face of an issue that is of such crucial importance for the international order, especially one that is in its own neighborhood.
The crisis in Europe's southern neighborhood reflects a deep-seated transformation process that will have long-lasting consequences - for the region, for Europe, and for the world.
The upheaval among Europe's southern and eastern neighbors may well bring about a long-overdue revamping of the EU's Neighborhood Policy.
The global financial crisis had made an updated and strengthened policy for the EU's eastern neighborhood an urgent need.
With John Kerry's arrival as Secretary of State, the US ought to recognize that such a large Islamic country in a troubled neighborhood should show leadership on human-rights issues.
In the long term, the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP), the EU's blueprint for relations with states on its periphery, offers the best chance for nurturing this relationship.
Enormous resources had been invested in the relationship with Russia, but very little had gone into helping the countries in the neighborhood that the EU and Russia share - including the most important of these neighbors, Ukraine.
The rules of the game would be changed and a whole variety of strategic goals could be achieved - European security, neighborhood conflicts, energy security, arms reduction, anti-proliferation, etc.
In practice, as a small country in a troubled neighborhood - and with North Korea a constant source of tension - it lives in existential anxiety.
India needed no ethical lessons from a United States and a Britain that have long coddled military dictators in India's South Asian neighborhood, notably in Pakistan.
With much of its immediate neighborhood convulsed in revolutionary change and in search of a viable road forward, understanding how Turkey moved from cronyism to economic dynamism is vitally important.
In other words, all of the migration that Europe currently faces is rooted in grave crises in its own neighborhood.
Clearly, the EU must substantially strengthen its Common Foreign and Security Policy, including the European Neighborhood Policy, in order to address more effectively the causes of migration at the source.

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