idyll

Example Sentences

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In what has all the hallmarks of a staged "scoop", this week's front page carries photographs of the couple taken recently on holiday in Corsica with the headline "The idyll that no-one expected."

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

It begins with a suburban idyll, bedroom curtains milky white in the morning sunlight, a mother waking to the radio, father and son out for an early bike ride.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

In her columns for “Smart Housekeeping,” Elizabeth presides over an idyll of New England domesticity.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2025

In subsequent books, the outside world impinges on Roz’s idyll.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025

I could drift along like this, in some dreary proletarian idyll, except for two things.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich