sylvan

Example Sentences

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Because you do not go to an airport to shop, dine or wander through a sylvan landscape, that’s why.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2022

The movie is romantic slapstick, set far from the bohemian Lower East Side in sylvan Vermont.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 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

Ihe sylvan fields, forests, and shores had been mowed down, paved over, and built up with roads, bridges, hospitals, boatyards, jails, and military bases, cities in and of themselves.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly