NEITHER in a Sentence

Learn NEITHER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
265 example sentences for NEITHER, such as:
1. Love can neither be bought nor sold.
2. He who does not work neither shall he eat.
3. He who follows two hares is sure to catch neither.
4. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
5. If you run after two heares, you will catch neither.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of NEITHER
neither
 a.  not either; not one or the other
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He slipped an arm through hers, as Eady had done, and fancied it was faintly pressed against her side, but neither of them moved.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  It was neither whining nor reproachful, but drily resolute.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  After Zeena's departure he and Mattie had stood speechless, neither seeking to approach the other.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on the porch were neither slack nor soft.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  The backwoods folks and the swamp dwellers owned neither horses nor mules.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  She had been raised in the bedroom of Solange Robillard, Ellen O'Hara's mother, a dainty, cold, high-nosed French-woman, who spared neither her children nor her servants their just punishment for any infringement of decorum.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  Too often she had surprised him when his eyes were neither drowsy nor remote, when he looked at her with a yearning and a sadness which puzzled her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
11  I like him, but it's neither heads nor tails I can make of most he says.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
12  As the carriage bore her down the red road toward the Wilkes plantation, Scarlett had a feeling of guilty pleasure that neither her mother nor Mammy was with the party.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  For an instance there was a silence so acute it seemed that neither of them even breathed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  "And the McLure girls have been called to Virginia," said Mrs. Elsing in her die-away voice, fanning herself languidly as if neither this nor anything else mattered very much.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  She wasn't going to make a fool out of herself about the Cause, but neither was she going to make a fool out of herself by admitting her true feelings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1  If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
2  If you run after two heares, you will catch neither.
3  I am who I am, your opinion is neither desired nor required.
4  Money is neither good nor bad, but all depends on what use is made of it.
5  Love can neither be bought or sold; its only price is love.
6  Love can neither be bought nor sold.
7  Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
8  A true great man will neither trample on a worm,nor sneak to an emperpor.
9  He who follows two hares is sure to catch neither.
10  He may well be contented who need neither borrow nor flatter.
11  They produced two reports, neither of which contained any useful suggestions.
12  He who does not work neither shall he eat.
13  If there be neither snow nor rain, then will be dear all sorts of grain.
14  Love is a kind of chance encounter, and one can neither waiting nor preparing for it.
15  He answered me, but he spoke neither slowly nor clearly.