How to Use bucolic in a Sentence
bucolic
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The villager-player is abstracted in the form of a ball chasing other balls around a bucolic scene.
— Hart Fowler, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2020 -
The move to a bucolic college town is all part of starting a family — with a yard to play in and grandparents nearby.
— Washington Post, 30 June 2020 -
Even when done as a standalone hike, the area’s bucolic air provides a satisfying journey.
— Mare Czinar, azcentral, 14 May 2020 -
The bucolic setting and mountain views rang faintly of Vermont.
— Sarah Firshein, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020 -
Diehard urbanites talk wistfully of a bucolic existence in la France profonde.
— The Economist, 20 June 2020 -
The mythology of baseball in America conjures up images of bucolic ease, where the game is an escape from the pressures of daily life.
— Greg Hanlon, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2020 -
Can UConn, bucolic but isolated in Storrs, Conn., avoid a similar drift?
— Jeré Longman, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020 -
And then later in the early 1900s, people from Paris to Provence took those meals into a bucolic outdoor setting.
— Jennifer G. Wolcott, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2020 -
This particular shot, with its bucolic color palette, reflects the meditative aesthetics of the entire film.
— Tiana Reid, The New York Review of Books, 20 June 2020 -
His bucolic existence is interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious woman named Dahj (Isa Briones), who pleads for his help.
— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2020 -
The front shows a bucolic scene of what this place once was.
— Nick Watt, CNN, 28 Mar. 2022 -
In the spring, the wildflowers bloom and the bucolic scenery comes to life.
— Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2022 -
For decades, the area was known for farmland, with bucolic rows of cows and crops.
— Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2023 -
The tree man is shown in the midst of a bucolic landscape with a city skyline in the distance.
— Steven Litt, cleveland, 23 Oct. 2022 -
From the outside, the bucolic scene seems peaceful and serene.
— Janine Schindler, Forbes, 4 May 2023 -
Who doesn't dream of living off the land in a bucolic paradise?
— Allison Duncan, House Beautiful, 19 July 2023 -
There are shots of sprawling forests and bucolic Flowery Branch, a small town on the shores of Lake Lanier.
— Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 9 Dec. 2022 -
Breath of the Wild is set in a bucolic, open world that begs exploration.
— Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 25 Oct. 2021 -
The bucolic setting does not, in any way, call to mind high fashion.
— Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 13 June 2022 -
Turn left and sail along the brief, bucolic drive that leads to your home for the weekend: Dillon Beach Resort.
— Amber Turpin, The Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2024 -
If all this and more sound good to you, make the drive to the bucolic Huntsville State Park with 21 miles of trails, playground, a bird blind and nature center.
— Perri Ormont Blumberg, Chron, 29 May 2022 -
And in the South, herds of hippos would soak like submarines in the bucolic waters of their riverside ranches.
— Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2023 -
The bucolic village of Three Pines, where most of Penny’s novels are set, has not been spared from covid-19.
— Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2021 -
Laurent The terrace at Laurent is in a bucolic setting that’s just steps from the Champs-Élysées.
— Jade Simon, Vogue, 21 June 2024 -
Weekenders come for the state parks, the bucolic vistas, art galleries and antique shops.
— Everett Potter, Forbes, 16 May 2022 -
But during the decades the mine was in operation, the area would have been anything but bucolic.
— John Hanc, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023 -
That meant once-bucolic villages on the city’s perimeter, like tiny Lukashivka, were not a safe haven.
— Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022 -
After more than a week of focusing on an area south of the county jail, the search moved about 30 miles to the north, to a bucolic stretch of stone barns and thick woods south of Pottstown, Pa.
— Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023 -
Barbara Stanwyck stars yet again, now assuming the role of a columnist who chronicles her fictitious life as a housewife at a bucolic Connecticut farm.
— Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2024 -
His previous series was influenced by the Idylls of Theocritus, a collection of early bucolic poems, which ruminate on the beauty and wisdom of pastoral life.
— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 29 Nov. 2024
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