countryside

Example Sentences

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Those who lived in the countryside were more likely to cherish memories of lard than olive oil; having a pig to slaughter could get a struggling family through the year.

From The Wall Street Journal

Leaders were set to gather in the Belgian countryside this Thursday for a “competitiveness retreat” focused on boosting economic productivity.

From The Wall Street Journal

I always imagined the countryside would be full of green grass and colorful wildflowers—maybe with a bubbling stream where ducks swim or a red barn to house the horses grazing in a nearby meadow.

From Literature

Protesters carried banners reading "No to our ruin" and "The Spanish countryside is not for sale".

From Barron's

It added the inspection "identified a small number of minor issues typical of a busy professional kitchen situated in the countryside of rural Wales" which had been "rectified immediately and in full".

From BBC