How to Use bucolic in a Sentence

bucolic

adjective

• In the end, Mr. Douthat’s illness defeats his bucolic dream.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2021
• Before that, Ohio's license featured a bucolic farm scene next to a cityscape that then-Gov.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 21 Oct. 2021
• Though seemingly bucolic, the production had its dark side.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• In that almost bucolic scheme, low-rise buildings stood amid fields of wildflowers, with playgrounds, schools, and shopping all at hand.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
• 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
• And so Jack has retreated, leaving Lilly to pick up the pieces by herself in their lovely house that sits on a bucolic rural dirt road.
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• The suburb, residents say, is a bucolic Southern paradise.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2021
• Cottagecore, perhaps the most prominent example, refers to a cozy, bucolic life style of wood cabins and herbal tea, but one that can still be practiced in a city apartment.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2021
• After ambling through the knot of cobbled alleyways, walk the one-and-a-half-mile stone rampart to see the picture-perfect town and its bucolic surroundings.
  — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 25 Aug. 2021
• In the hills of Brentwood, a bucolic ranch owned for nearly 70 years by the late actor Norman Lloyd has sold for $3 million.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• Idealizing the beauty of the bucolic landscape often minimizes the labor tied to it, and so Yu disrupts any sense of the natural world as mute and pleasant.
  — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
• And now, that reckoning has found its way to this bucolic, central Massachusetts campus and a policing program some experts have said could serve as a model for policing’s future.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• But the pandemic has transformed the world’s longest hiking-only footpath from a bucolic refuge to a linear version of Costco on a Saturday.
  — Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2021
• Some appreciate the romanticized, bucolic approach to raising a family, while others see it as a regression in the women's rights movement.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 30 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• The 17-mile stretch of I-80 where the toll lanes will go sits along bucolic agricultural lands, between the college town of Davis and the bustle of Sacramento.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024