ambient
Example Sentences
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Over on “The Bite,” I’ve written about returning to “ambient hospitality” — the idea of having a home that’s ready for company without weeks of planning, a small fortune, or a hired brigade of cleaners.
From Salon
Mr Osborne later staged a partial climbdown by exempting products that are left to return to "ambient temperatures" on shelves in bakeries and supermarkets.
From BBC
The improvisation petered out after more than an hour with no sense of arrival, just an agreeable sensation of being OK in wherever ambient world you had just landed.
From Los Angeles Times
The Restore 3 is a sleeper’s Swiss Army knife, with a variety of white noise and other ambient sounds, along with gentle lighting to ease you into—and out of—your bed.
The album has too much happening to function as ambient or environmental music—though loops are plentiful, there’s a consistent sense of development through these constructions, as elements are born, bloom and fade away.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
