idyll
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When Adam Dunlop and his young family built their dream family home in the Northern Irish countryside, they never imagined that the fields around their idyll would become an illegal dumping ground for dead animals.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
Maintaining this pleasant emptiness is no easy task, as ghosts of Charles’s past slowly begin to invade his idyll.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
In her columns for “Smart Housekeeping,” Elizabeth presides over an idyll of New England domesticity.
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2025
"It's a beautiful, unspoilt rural idyll that somehow exists in its own timelessness, as if awaiting the return of John Constable," wrote Barclay in a review posted in October 2024.
From BBC • Jul. 10, 2025
“It wasn’t the same. No summer idyll like we used to have. They were doing construction on New Clairmont. Everyone was acting miserable and I kept looking for you but you never came.”
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
Vocabulary lists containing idyll
Poetry: Genres
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - High School
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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