sylvan
Example Sentences
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So neither Danny nor I are surprised that this prequel opens on the sylvan fields of Valinor where Elven children play.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2022
The movie is romantic slapstick, set far from the bohemian Lower East Side in sylvan Vermont.
From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2022
According to the DSM-5, my trauma originated in learning about Jason’s trauma; it arose in that moment when I stepped off the veranda beside that sylvan lake and checked my email.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2022
While it’s hard today to imagine the Baileys’ Adams Morgan home as a sylvan retreat, apparently it was.
From Washington Post • May 25, 2022
The darkness of natural as well as of sylvan dusk gathered over me.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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