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

We aren’t that many years removed from the neighborly “Be Kind, Rewind” stickers on rented videocassettes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

“I thought we were neighborly hanging out … because I don’t date my neighbors.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2024

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

This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all men.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry