ambience

Example Sentences

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With the aid of Sara Gettelfinger’s choreography, the five subordinate characters jelled as an ensemble, supplying ambience and making up for the missing chorus.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 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

Fortunately, she doesn’t have to get her hands dirty or even leave the couch to light up the ambience.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

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