sylvan
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From the village of Malham we hiked to Malham Cove, which rose in near miraculous silver splendor among the sylvan greenery, and then ascended the nearly 500 steps to its top.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
It has been with him all his life, and it is a conductor’s opera — complex, fleeting, sylvan, changeable, tender and tough.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
Temporary departures from the sylvan landscape for professional activities are prohibited, but the place has been known to have a hold on people.
From New York Times • Jul. 6, 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
The darkness of natural as well as of sylvan dusk gathered over me.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing sylvan
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"Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats
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