sylvan

Example Sentences

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Are you up for another sylvan frolic, courtesy of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine?

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2023

Temporary departures from the sylvan landscape for professional activities are prohibited, but the place has been known to have a hold on people.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2022

Scientists are also designing proteins with amino acid compositions similar to those in feed made of fish but created from sawdust and other forest residue plentiful in the sylvan state of Maine.

From Scientific American • May 7, 2022

One woman does yoga in a sylvan breezeway; another plays the drums in a spacious studio with branches lapping at the windows.

From New York Times • May 4, 2022

The darkness of natural as well as of sylvan dusk gathered over me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë