next door

Example Sentences

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Elliot Alvarez, a local who had been at a next-door bar with friends, told AFP: "We received a call from a friend who was clearly panicked on the phone and explained that there had apparently been an explosion."

From Barron's

And how can we look our next-door neighbor in the eye when she comes to examine the giant empty scar where her house once stood?

From Los Angeles Times

When he was young, he told his next-door neighbors it was his dream to live in it one day.

From Los Angeles Times

Indeed, a nemesis dismisses John Cena’s namesake vigilante, whose real name is Chris Smith, as “a jingoistic garbage person with the musical taste of the next-door bully from ‘Toy Story.’”

From Salon

Instead of calling an extermination company, my landlord would just text me, claiming the next-door neighbors were dirty.

From MarketWatch