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
"It's a beautiful, unspoilt rural idyll that somehow exists in its own timelessness, as if awaiting the return of John Constable," wrote Barclay in a review posted in October 2024.
From BBC • Jul. 10, 2025
The dates and places were correct; his description of his boyhood as a typical country idyll was most certainly a fabrication.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing idyll
Poetry: Genres
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - High School
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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