neighborhood

Example Sentences

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“We walk to school. We walk to pay our water bill. We walk to pick up our mail. There’s lots of kids in the neighborhood.”

From Los Angeles Times

Dr. Maria Montessori opened her first classroom in 1907 in the working-class neighborhoods of Rome, introducing an educational approach built around children's natural motivation to learn.

From Science Daily

An ambitious paralegal, Banna said she embraced the role she had in empowering residents to take on companies suspected of polluting their neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times

Wildfire risk has complicated the state’s fraught housing debate, often shaped by pro-development “yes in my backyard” advocates and local “not in my backyard” groups that don’t want to see their own neighborhoods radically transformed.

From Los Angeles Times

Researchers then compared these molecular markers with a combined measure of neighborhood conditions and other factors known to affect health.

From Science Daily