How to Use next-door in a Sentence
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The babysitters count the kids' heads and there's this next-door neighbor kid who has one scene.
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Brenton Blanchet,
Peoplemag,
14 June 2024
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The $15 drink will be served frozen, which should pair nicely with a view of the restaurant’s next-door pool.
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Amanda Hancock,
The Courier-Journal,
10 Apr. 2024
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The next-door neighbors have played just three times in the last half-century.
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Kevin Sherrington,
Dallas News,
15 June 2023
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The cocktail bar will be next-door, at 2909 Greenville Ave., Dallas.
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Sarah Blaskovich,
Dallas News,
18 May 2023
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Our next-door neighbor passed away in July 2021 and didn’t leave a will.
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Jill Terreri Ramos,
New York Times,
12 Aug. 2023
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His next-door neighbor was George Clooney; Jimmy Page lived down the street.
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David Segal,
BostonGlobe.com,
8 July 2023
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Yes, rush-hour commutes are a pain and the next-door neighbors might be too close for comfort.
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David Martindale,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Jan. 2024
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Candace Green, Bay’s next-door neighbor, said her son went to school with Trey’Shawn.
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Allie Kelly,
Dallas News,
12 July 2023
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My brother is my next-door neighbor, and my parents are just down the street from us.
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Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 May 2024
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Kiki on the River is about to get a glamorous new next-door neighbor.
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Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
21 May 2024
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His next-door neighbor, a fellow named Roger Staubach, had dropped by for a visit.
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David Moore,
Dallas News,
4 Aug. 2023
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Dear Amy: My husband and I have become close friends with our next-door neighbors.
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Amy Dickinson,
Washington Post,
4 Nov. 2023
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The couple’s guitar-playing next-door neighbor, Ed Means, joined the group six years ago.
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August Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Aug. 2023
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The latter space, along with the next-door powder room and outdoor kitchen, was remodeled in 2021.
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Caron Golden,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Mar. 2023
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Back in the 1940s Portugal looked at its next-door neighbor Spain with its paradores and decided to do the same thing.
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Larry Olmsted,
Forbes,
2 Oct. 2024
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The two stirred up a romance, but everything fell apart when Leia tried to kiss her next-door neighbor Nate.
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Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
27 June 2024
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Her next-door neighbors have two sons, who have helped out many times with shoveling snow.
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Jacobina Martin,
Washington Post,
27 Dec. 2023
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The gathering was meant to impress his wealthy next-door neighbors.
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Anne Stein,
The Christian Science Monitor,
21 Dec. 2023
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Tina Fey then enters the proceedings as Rita, next-door neighbor of the first Maggie to wind up dead.
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Michael Nordine,
Variety,
15 June 2023
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At dusk, my next-door neighbors set up their firepit, and neighbors on the block all gravitated over.
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Dylan Tupper Rupert,
Vogue,
2 Oct. 2024
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Borland said her well and those of her next-door neighbors have some of the worst contamination.
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Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Aug. 2023
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Other footage showed a blast at the building next-door, caused by what the Israeli military said was an Israeli strike.
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Hiba Yazbek,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2024
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The female victim stumbled out of the home and onto the porch of their next-door neighbor while bleeding profusely.
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Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News,
Fox News,
18 May 2024
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His next-door Roseville neighbor Tina Ruth said Farkas didn’t shy away from sharing his story.
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Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
24 Jan. 2024
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He can be seen on a next-door neighbor's Ring camera banging on their door, but no one responded.
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Cameron Rubner,
CBS News,
11 Feb. 2024
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More than 30 people somehow cram each night into a next-door room under a roof pocked with bullet holes.
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Jason Motlagh,
Rolling Stone,
26 Nov. 2023
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The couple is now recovering in next-door rooms at the hospital.
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Aria Bendix,
NBC News,
4 Nov. 2023
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The resident said his next-door neighbors were hosting a party late Aug. 19 and early Aug. 20.
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Bob Sandrick,
cleveland,
24 Aug. 2023
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Touch it, and you’re ushered into the presence of the Armstrongs’s close friend and next-door neighbor Selma Heraldo.
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Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
20 Sep. 2023
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His next-door neighbor, Jerry Fallen, was arrested the next day.
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Jade Jackson,
The Indianapolis Star,
7 Oct. 2024
- He bought the house next door.
- I'll be staying in the room next door.
- Canada is right next door to the U.S.
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Reed opened his gallery just next door to Voloshyn last fall.
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Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
30 May 2024
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The house next door was torn down and Casa De Locos was next.
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Stephanie Salas-Vega,
Dallas News,
31 Mar. 2023
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The white student who no longer wished to share a room with LeVias moved to the dorm room next door.
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Dallas News,
13 Jan. 2023
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The kitchen of the house that Charlotte and Thomas Huggins bought next door to their house in 2019.
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Nancy Keates,
WSJ,
4 Aug. 2022
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The West Side Market is next door, the cityscape laid out on the near horizon.
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Marc Bona,
cleveland,
7 Oct. 2022
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The woman had to jump out a window and run next door for help.
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Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
27 July 2023
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Swing by the café, get lunch, then go to the bakery next door and get a loaf of bread to bring home.
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Blaine Callahan,
Hartford Courant,
3 Aug. 2022
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The garage has the same shape as that of the house next door but there are no doors visible.
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Nancy Keates,
WSJ,
14 Sep. 2022
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His 5-year-old friend, who lives in the tent next door, ran alongside him.
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Paloma Esquivel,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2024
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His cousin lives in a home next door to the construction site.
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Nathan Solis,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Nov. 2023
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The actress is the celebrity next door, our make-it-work, A-list best friend.
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Town & Country,
26 Oct. 2022
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For The Times) Now the keepers live in the smaller structure next door to the main building.
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Christopher Reynolds,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2024
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Just next door to the farm is where Cascetta and her family lived.
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Shosh Bedrosian,
CBS News,
6 Aug. 2023
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Pamela Bass is the woman who lived next door to Dahmer.
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Jasmine Washington,
Seventeen,
3 Oct. 2022
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Losers’ success led to Winners right next door, as well as the Dawg House.
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Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
20 Mar. 2024
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The bar opens daily at 3 p.m., two hours before the steakhouse and Paisano’s next door.
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Charlie Vargas,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Jan. 2024
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In a marina next door, some of the boats lay half-sunken or rammed against docks.
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Chris Kenning,
USA TODAY,
10 Oct. 2024
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The two refurbished a banquet hall next door that’s now booked most of the year.
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Oct. 2024
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On Main Street, there was, like, a gay and lesbian bookshop right next door to the gun shop.
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Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
28 July 2023
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The scene packed the parking lots and drew guests from next door to several towns away.
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Jesse Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Nov. 2022
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There were no cousins next door, no aunts or uncles in the neighborhood to go to.
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Souvankham Thammavongsa,
The New Yorker,
3 July 2023
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His aunt, who lives next door, went outside after the storm passed.
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Emmanuel Felton,
Washington Post,
27 Mar. 2023
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Madison had been told that armed men kicked in the door of the home of J.C.’s sister, who lived next door to J.C. with her son.
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Liam Quinn,
Peoplemag,
24 Aug. 2023
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One Rummer in the Bohmann Park tract has a pantry that is six feet long while the pantry in the house next door stretches to 10 feet.
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oregonlive,
4 Aug. 2022
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The girl is on the call as officers finally force their way in to the room next door.
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Rachel Clarke,
CNN,
1 Nov. 2022
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Her daughter and son-in-law lived in the bungalow next door.
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Emily Cochrane,
BostonGlobe.com,
10 Oct. 2022
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Florida is right next door to Georgia, one of seven key swing states in the 2024 presidential election.
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Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
18 Oct. 2024
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