neighborly

Example Sentences

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Before the removal, Adam had voluntarily offered to contribute toward Brian’s expenses as a neighborly gesture, despite believing he had no legal liability.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

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

“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” casts Minneapolis as progressive and neighborly, a bustling metropolis located between stereotypical Midwestern patriarchal stubbornness and a feminist future.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

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