How to Use halcyon in a Sentence

halcyon

adjective
  • But war had somehow changed since the halcyon days of Tommy and Fritz.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Four decades later, PIR is taking a trip back to its halcyon days.
    Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 21 June 2023
  • Ridd and his team aim to return to the festival’s halcyon days in a month where the city is abuzz with creative festivals.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Still, there is nothing halcyon about Brown’s vision of the future.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Gone are the halcyon days when he was seen as a master puppeteer who won Donald Trump the White House and secretly called all the shots behind the scenes.
    Laura Bradley, VanityFair.com, 1 June 2017
  • The halcyon days of the Fab Five — the trademark baggy shorts and black socks and trash talk — seemed like memories from another lifetime.
    Nathan Fenno, latimes.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Philosopher Nick Bostrom thinks this halcyon world could bring a new age entirely.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2021
  • The movie swears allegiance to that halcyon, carefree world, where humor is a matter of laughing with rather than at.
    A.o. Scott, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The series can become too heavy in spots, and often that happens because the series casts the characters’ pasts in such a halcyon light.
    Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
  • After about 36 months of President Biden, in other words, people yearn for the halcyon Trump ...
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 5 Mar. 2024
  • There’s comfort in talk of restoration, of a halcyon era recovered.
    Ian MacDougall, Harper's Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The fish trundled around in the Late Devonian, an enviously halcyon version of Earth in which the climate was pleasant and mild and the seas were full of fish.
    New York Times, 29 Apr. 2022
  • That was in the 1880s, and even a century or so later, Gotha seemed to retain a certain identity as a halcyon, rural spot.
    Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Nov. 2020
  • Its odd cylinder count lends it a characteristic warble that harkens back to the brand's halcyon rallying days of the 1980s.
    Jens Meiners, Car and Driver, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Yet studio work, much courtesy of streamer orders, may rebound, but never return to the halcyon levels of the last few years.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 11 June 2023
  • Or worse, said former owner Peter Einstein, who lived in the eye-catching abode during its halcyon days.
    Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The Dolphins are Shula and Marino and halcyon days ever-distant.
    Greg Cote, miamiherald, 13 Apr. 2018
  • First four picks have defense headed back towards halcyon days.
    Eddie Brown, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 May 2017
  • Like her sister, Ms. Fjeld has halcyon memories of growing up in small-town Vermont and being part of a large family.
    Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2024
  • So even if the OpenAI board still technically called the shots, the halcyon days of being unaccountable ended.
    Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2023
  • EZTV recalls those halcyon days of paisley pop, a flickering movement that offered a more sober version of power pop.
    Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Those elements define his music too: a loose meld of American folklore, halcyon pop and free jazz.
    New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Refined, almost epicene, with knobby knees and visible veins, and a pencil moustache to match his pencil frame, Adrien tells stories of Frantz’s halcyon days as a student in Paris before the war.
    Leo Robson, Newsweek, 4 May 2017
  • To be sure, this was hardly some halcyon moment of voting rights, the dream of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments gloriously fulfilled.
    David Daley, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Anyway, these are halcyon days for me and the legions of big-building-photo-and-video-projection enthusiasts.
    Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2021
  • The halcyon days where venture capitalists were content forking over billions to the latest AI startup, as researchers burned through cash with little to show for it, may be all but over.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune Asia, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The largest of them was a glitzy bash at a villa outside downtown that evoked halcyon days of festivals past, when established U.S. and French giants regularly threw over-the-top parties.
    Steven Zeitchik, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2017
  • And yet, Bach this week sketched a scenario of a halcyon and healthy Games, sending an unsubtle but important message to corporate sponsors to plan on being in Tokyo in July.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The forest transformed into something halcyon and storybook-like, as though the many creatures were guiding me along with a gentle touch, like a small caterpillar rounding around on skin.
    Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Since joining the brand in 2013, Blume has been sequestered away in the halcyon world of Porsche, a carmaker that cranks out reliable double-digit profit margins as if by assembly line.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 25 July 2022

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