How to Use next-door in a Sentence

next-door

1 of 2 adjective

• The babysitters count the kids' heads and there's this next-door neighbor kid who has one scene.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 14 June 2024
• The $15 drink will be served frozen, which should pair nicely with a view of the restaurant’s next-door pool.
  — Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 10 Apr. 2024
• The next-door neighbors have played just three times in the last half-century.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
• The cocktail bar will be next-door, at 2909 Greenville Ave., Dallas.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 18 May 2023
• Our next-door neighbor passed away in July 2021 and didn’t leave a will.
  — Jill Terreri Ramos, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• His next-door neighbor was George Clooney; Jimmy Page lived down the street.
  — David Segal, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• Yes, rush-hour commutes are a pain and the next-door neighbors might be too close for comfort.
  — David Martindale, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
• Candace Green, Bay’s next-door neighbor, said her son went to school with Trey’Shawn.
  — Allie Kelly, Dallas News, 12 July 2023
• My brother is my next-door neighbor, and my parents are just down the street from us.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2024
• Kiki on the River is about to get a glamorous new next-door neighbor.
  — Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 21 May 2024
• His next-door neighbor, a fellow named Roger Staubach, had dropped by for a visit.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
• Dear Amy: My husband and I have become close friends with our next-door neighbors.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
• The couple’s guitar-playing next-door neighbor, Ed Means, joined the group six years ago.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• The latter space, along with the next-door powder room and outdoor kitchen, was remodeled in 2021.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• Back in the 1940s Portugal looked at its next-door neighbor Spain with its paradores and decided to do the same thing.
  — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• The two stirred up a romance, but everything fell apart when Leia tried to kiss her next-door neighbor Nate.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 27 June 2024
• Her next-door neighbors have two sons, who have helped out many times with shoveling snow.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
• The gathering was meant to impress his wealthy next-door neighbors.
  — Anne Stein, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2023
• Tina Fey then enters the proceedings as Rita, next-door neighbor of the first Maggie to wind up dead.
  — Michael Nordine, Variety, 15 June 2023
• At dusk, my next-door neighbors set up their firepit, and neighbors on the block all gravitated over.
  — Dylan Tupper Rupert, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2024
• Borland said her well and those of her next-door neighbors have some of the worst contamination.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Other footage showed a blast at the building next-door, caused by what the Israeli military said was an Israeli strike.
  — Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• The female victim stumbled out of the home and onto the porch of their next-door neighbor while bleeding profusely.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 18 May 2024
• His next-door Roseville neighbor Tina Ruth said Farkas didn’t shy away from sharing his story.
  — Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 24 Jan. 2024
• He can be seen on a next-door neighbor's Ring camera banging on their door, but no one responded.
  — Cameron Rubner, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2024
• More than 30 people somehow cram each night into a next-door room under a roof pocked with bullet holes.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
• The couple is now recovering in next-door rooms at the hospital.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2023
• The resident said his next-door neighbors were hosting a party late Aug. 19 and early Aug. 20.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2023
• His next-door neighbor even began adding more Trump signage after Fortson’s first sign went up.
  — Alec Mork and Mikia Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 2 Nov. 2024
• Some shots flew into a next-door neighbor’s adjoining apartment.
  — Dylan Lovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2024

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next door

2 of 2 adverb

• He bought the house next door.
• I'll be staying in the room next door.
• Canada is right next door to the U.S.
• Reed opened his gallery just next door to Voloshyn last fall.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 30 May 2024
• The house next door was torn down and Casa De Locos was next.
  — Stephanie Salas-Vega, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2023
• The white student who no longer wished to share a room with LeVias moved to the dorm room next door.
  — Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2023
• The kitchen of the house that Charlotte and Thomas Huggins bought next door to their house in 2019.
  — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
• The West Side Market is next door, the cityscape laid out on the near horizon.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2022
• The woman had to jump out a window and run next door for help.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2023
• Swing by the café, get lunch, then go to the bakery next door and get a loaf of bread to bring home.
  — Blaine Callahan, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2022
• The garage has the same shape as that of the house next door but there are no doors visible.
  — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
• His 5-year-old friend, who lives in the tent next door, ran alongside him.
  — Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2024
• His cousin lives in a home next door to the construction site.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• The actress is the celebrity next door, our make-it-work, A-list best friend.
  — Town & Country, 26 Oct. 2022
• For The Times) Now the keepers live in the smaller structure next door to the main building.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• Just next door to the farm is where Cascetta and her family lived.
  — Shosh Bedrosian, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2023
• Pamela Bass is the woman who lived next door to Dahmer.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 3 Oct. 2022
• Losers’ success led to Winners right next door, as well as the Dawg House.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 20 Mar. 2024
• The bar opens daily at 3 p.m., two hours before the steakhouse and Paisano’s next door.
  — Charlie Vargas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
• In a marina next door, some of the boats lay half-sunken or rammed against docks.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024
• The two refurbished a banquet hall next door that’s now booked most of the year.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
• Then another sign went up in the front yard of the townhouse next door.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2022
• On Main Street, there was, like, a gay and lesbian bookshop right next door to the gun shop.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
• The scene packed the parking lots and drew guests from next door to several towns away.
  — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
• There were no cousins next door, no aunts or uncles in the neighborhood to go to.
  — Souvankham Thammavongsa, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• Don't assume that the school right next door is going to be the one your child is assigned to.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 2 May 2022
• His aunt, who lives next door, went outside after the storm passed.
  — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• 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.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2023
• The police department said Mata, a resident, had been trying to take a firearm from another man when the gun discharged into the unit next door.
  — Bianca Moreno-Paz, Austin American-Statesman, 18 Nov. 2024
• Lolo is a luxe little extension of the chef’s postcode-wife monopoly, with all of the culinary intrigue to woo people away from the original tapas bar next door–or, at least, woo them away from queueing up for a table in the rain.
  — Lela London, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024