Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: neighbouring
IPA transcription: [n'eɪbɚɪŋ]
Pronunciations of neighbouring
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Usage examples
  • Suddenly, at the end of the neighbouring valley, the water seethes and foams.
  • About this time the grand duke had a visit from a neighbouring prince, a friend of his.
  • But he felt also in need of bodily sustenance, so he purchased a bun and a bottle of lemonade at a neighbouring shop and sat by the roadside to recover.
  • When he left Marseilles, he had not a shoe to his foot or a decent garment to his back, but was provided with some money and clothes by his wife in a neighbouring town.
  • She is not your sister at all, but the daughter of the king of a neighbouring country, who was given to your mother to bring up, to save her from the hands of a wizard.'
  • When they take up their quarters in any village they steal very little in its immediate vicinity, but in the neighbouring parishes they rob and plunder in the most daring manner.
  • Hunger-driven, she climbed to the edge and exercised her wings until she managed some sort of flight to a neighbouring bush. She missed the twig and fell to the ground, where she lay cold and shivering.
  • "It looks," Sir Richmond said, "as though some old giantess had left a discarded set of teeth on the hillside." Far more impressive than Stonehenge itself were the barrows that capped the neighbouring crests.
  • 'Why, I would gladly give her two thousand!' cried he, 'for she has saved my daughter.' And he bade messengers hasten to all the neighbouring villages, and tell his people to send him at once all the cattle he possessed.
  • At last, when everything else had failed, she managed to make her brother, who was king of the neighbouring country, declare war against the emperor, and besiege some of the frontier towns with a large army. This time her scheme was successful.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Mortara case, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Oriel College, Oxford, License CC BY-SA 4.0