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the array of painted backgrounds and furnishings used to establish the setting in a stage production the musical was worth seeing just for the elaborate scenery

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Recent Examples of scenery Nevertheless, the sheer devastation of the area led to this year's change of scenery. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025 What does the greatest wide receiver in the history of the NFL have to do with Thompson, Butler and the Warriors? Nothing directly, but there are parallels in how a change of scenery can positively affect a star player. Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2025 Admiring the historic architecture and nautical scenery is enough of a reason to venture down to the water alone, but Ball also recommends heading down to where the Selina II is docked and boarding for a sail on the Miles River and greater Chesapeake Bay. Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2025 Though this show is no stranger to Los Angeles, it was surrounded this time by a change in scenery, following a January marked by two of the city’s most destructive and expensive wildfires on record, which claimed a combined 37,469 acres across Altadena and the Pacific Palisades. Evan Nicole Brown, TIME, 3 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for scenery 

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“Scenery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scenery. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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