sylvan

Example Sentences

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Are you up for another sylvan frolic, courtesy of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine?

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2023

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

Scientists are also designing proteins with amino acid compositions similar to those in feed made of fish but created from sawdust and other forest residue plentiful in the sylvan state of Maine.

From Scientific American • May 7, 2022

The darkness of natural as well as of sylvan dusk gathered over me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë