bucolic
Example Sentences
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Captive in bucolic panopticons, their lives are at once aesthetically alluring, depressingly regressive and anthropologically fascinating.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
When urban churchyards reached capacity in the 1830s, some U.S. cities opened cemeteries with planted trees and winding paths, creating bucolic places of remembrance and recreation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
Looking back on her bucolic childhood in L.A.,
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025
Her listing appeared to show a pristine, albeit A.I.-generated, house with smooth textures, clean walls and windows, a nice green lawn, and a bench out front under bucolic lighting.
From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025
She walked in the direction of the song, following it till she found a small, bucolic waterfall that fed into a turquoise pond.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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