ambience
Example Sentences
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Not to be outdone by the album’s soaring musical ambience, Styles’ lyrics never disappoint, blending his penchant for witticism with pop-culture philosophy.
From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026
Chipped conch shells and scattered bone whistles point to a musical ambience.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
That charged ambience has taken on new meaning after Ghana's famed Highlife music was inscribed recently on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list, a major international recognition of one of west Africa's most influential musical traditions.
From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026
Hosting on a budget is a rite of passage, I think—a kind of domestic apprenticeship where you suddenly realize that ambience is not something you can buy in the seasonal aisle.
From Salon • Nov. 25, 2025
The idea that the temple, wearing its own black band, grieved for the burned-down mansion, that it yearned for a grand and invisible presence, bestowed a faintly religious ambience.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing ambience
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Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
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