bucolic

Example Sentences

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The memorial thereby manages to combine formality—in tribute to Hunt’s classicism—with serenity, in acknowledgment of its bucolic setting in an urban oasis.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

I grew up in Pittsfield, Mass., a bucolic, General Electric factory city.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

The sun is starting to go down outside — this is the time of day, he says, when Chaplin’s bucolic grounds remind him of Montecito’s San Ysidro Ranch — and he’s getting slightly philosophical.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2026

Against bucolic and urban images of industry and humanity, Reagan begins in his unmistakable voice, “When someone says ‘Let’s impose tariffs on foreign imports,’ it looks like they’re doing the patriotic thing.”

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2025

The sun had just gone down, and its afterglow was backlighting the city, which formed low cliffs around the bucolic void to the idle stockyards.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut