neighborhood
Example Sentences
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When they got back the surrounding neighborhoods were in ruins: Trees were charred, cars were stripped down to metal frames and homes were gutted or left in ash.
From Los Angeles Times
Hollywood Heritage, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving neighborhood history, mourned the loss of the motel in a statement Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times
“Both countries are looking at more immediate neighborhoods, demanding more of their alliances, and becoming a lot more aggressive than we are accustomed to,” he said.
I would like to see office buildings that blend seamlessly into residential neighborhoods.
He looked like a man in his bathrobe who’d come outside to see all the neighborhood confusion.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.