neighborly

Example Sentences

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That’s something maybe the mayor would have to put as a moral question to the city, asking New Yorkers to do the neighborly thing: keeping all of our sidewalks and communities clean for everyone else.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026

Minnesota is a state with a deep history of civic involvement and neighborly collaboration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Asked which celebrities he runs into regularly in the area, Berkowitz declined to comment on the record, saying it “wouldn’t be neighborly to do so.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

Neighbors hold back from neighborly gestures — no longer joining in celebrations, or knocking to inquire in moments of pain.

From New York Times • May 18, 2024

He mentions that one stranger had a broken leg and that he had done the neighborly thing by splinting it before sending the men on their way.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly