next door
Example Sentences
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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
His parents even bought the next-door house, knocked it down and built a cricket pitch where Robin and his elder brother Chris could practise - complete with an early bowling machine - and hired ex-Natal player Grayson Heath to coach them.
From BBC
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