How to Use in the neighborhood in a Sentence

in the neighborhood

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  • The word on the street is that the drugs in the neighborhood are dirty.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The force of the blast set off at least one car alarm in the neighborhood.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Peña grew up in the neighborhood, near St. Mary’s Park.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Police blocked off part of a street in the neighborhood and could be seen going in and out of a home.
    — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Benjamin then handed out the bills to his friends in the neighborhood.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The turnover has allowed some new entrants to open up shop in the neighborhood.
    — Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 12 Sep. 2024
  • There weren’t many restaurants like it in the neighborhood.
    — Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
  • Our very own Michael Graff tells us that Growlers has his favorite wings in the neighborhood.
    — Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Carter says Doris Records is the oldest business in the neighborhood.
    — Julian Roberts-Grmela, SPIN, 20 Nov. 2024
  • A lot of those people are still living in the neighborhood.
    — WIRED, 22 June 2023
  • And most of the people in the neighborhood were Southern people.
    — Scott Talley, Detroit Free Press, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The rooftop balcony was built in lieu of a front porch because of the violence in the neighborhood, Williams said.
    — Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Neighbors described him at the time as a nice kid who got along with others in the neighborhood.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The shooter or shooters were firing at a house in the neighborhood.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], 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
  • All the craftsmen in the neighborhood were in this together.
    — Shoshana Brower, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Their reactions were nowhere in the neighborhood of awe.
    — Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Homes in the neighborhood are now selling for over $1.5 million.
    — Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 17 Feb. 2025
  • 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 new homes would be required to be at the same scale or a similar scale to the existing housing in the neighborhood.
    — David Garrick, The Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Like many of the properties in the neighborhood, a major wash cuts through Jones’ backyard.
    — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 7 Nov. 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
  • Like many old-fashioned white-glove co-ops in the neighborhood, however, subletting and pieds-à-terre are not allowed.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 11 Feb. 2025

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