How to Use neither in a Sentence

neither

adverb
  • Politicians didn’t do that for you, and neither did the lawyers.
    — William Baldwin, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • These are neither safe nor effective ways to kill all the germs on your mask.
    — Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2020
  • No two people age the same way, and indeed, neither do any two cells.
    — Ellen Quarles, Fortune Well, 7 July 2023
  • But flip-flops are neither good for your feet nor likely to win you an upgrade.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Because of his illness, the man had done neither.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2026
  • Ni**as don’t like y’all music neither.
    — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Wannier had no symptoms, and neither did any of his close contacts.
    — Star Tribune, 21 Nov. 2020
  • The owner won’t know who found the tracker, and neither will anyone else.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Of course neither, really, do they for Clark.
    — Kevin Doughten, HollywoodReporter, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Well, what about either and neither, which can be pronounced eyether and neyether or eether and neether?
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The streets here are neither mean nor realistic.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Yet, there are grounds to believe that the parties are neither willing nor prepared to go to war.
    — Elias Ferrer Breda, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But Gingrich didn’t go for it, and neither did any of his successors.
    — Justin Papp, Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The movie doesn’t ever have to decide about it, and neither does the audience.
    — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Signal can’t read your messages or listen to your phone calls, and neither can anyone else.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 1 June 2022
  • The Ton does not forget such a juicy bit of gossip, and neither does the Queen.
    — Katie Rife, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Bowman didn’t start hot, and neither did the Red Raider offense.
    — Dallas News, 27 Sep. 2020
  • The cows don’t take days off, so neither do the drivers -- in rain, in snow, or on Packer game days.
    — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Aluminum foil excels at neither.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2025
  • But the indirect cost of the quake could be much higher, and recovery will be neither easy nor quick.
    — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The law firm that represents the city did not respond, and neither did two former police chiefs.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The record is clear that the administration did neither.
    — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The video showed Johnson neither actively brandished the weapon nor fired any shots.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 13 May 2022
  • But that doesn’t fly and neither do the efforts to explain away Biden’s misstatement.
    — Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The rule, like everything else, is neither hard nor fast, but odds are the team dominating on the ground will win the game.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Your plan doesn’t have to be perfect, and neither does the implementation.
    — Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • The tech companies won’t admit this and neither will the employers.
    — Gene Marks, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
  • But the lawsuit never made it to trial, and neither did Tommy Bell.
    — CBS News, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Most of the clientele were families of Asian tourists, talking neither to us nor among themselves.
    — Joe Joyce, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Bearing in mind the size of his following who read these posts, some of whom express likes, some express dislike and some neither.
    — Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025

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