halcyon

Example Sentences

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It was during those halcyon days before there were children under our care, and my wife and I were free to keep fairly reckless hours.

From Seattle Times

His former girlfriend Elizabeth Kendall is primary to the story, as she recalls their early halcyon days and, later, signs that something was terribly broken in her handsome yet troubled partner.

From Los Angeles Times

But the solution is not to promise to revive some halcyon manufacturing-centric labor market that will never return.

From Washington Post

First raced in 1891, it represented the halcyon days of cycling, with its 2 a.m. start and late afternoon finish in Paris.

From Seattle Times

In hindsight, it has come to represent a halcyon moment of national unity - or, as the show's writer Frank Cottrell Boyce recently remembered it, "a temporary Utopia".

From BBC