How to Use idyll in a Sentence

idyll

noun
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  • The 1918 Armistice had brought no idyll, yet at least there had been a chance to heal the hurts of war.
    — John Garth, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The part of the gun industry that Busse entered was, in his own telling, a kind of idyll.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Videos from the scene of the attack showed a summertime idyll destroyed.
    — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
  • Their idyll was shattered when Johnson was forced to move out of her home, the couple said.
    — CNN, 27 June 2019
  • To the city folk who sojourn there, West Marin is an agrarian idyll.
    — Leilani Marie Labong, SFChronicle.com, 21 May 2020
  • Set in an Andalusian idyll, a rich portrait of the challenges of love.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 17 Feb. 2023
  • You And Tequila are all one needs for a tropical idyll.
    — Bob Doerschuk, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The bench had become the locus of a kind of unhurried urban idyll.
    — Anne Quito, Quartzy, 24 Sep. 2019
  • But when a landowner comes to claim the property, their idyll is threatened.
    — Joumana Khatib, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • In season three, the Pogues are enjoying a brief idyll on their desert island, a peace that doesn't last for long.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The present is uncomfortable and off-kilter, and the memory—the wild swim—is an idyll.
    — The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The shoplifting incident ended his idyll with the Wilsons.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2021
  • An alluring new idyll set amid the crystalline waters of the Red Sea promises all that and much more.
    — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 26 June 2023
  • Reading Frost’s poems as mere odes to rural idylls de-fangs them.
    — Tyler Malone, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
  • Yet this relaxed riverside idyll is a world away from the sheer hell Deir Ezzor is seeing right now.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 23 Oct. 2017
  • This idyll came to an end in 1913, when, against his wishes, Stewart’s mother sent him to Princeton.
    — Matthew Sherrill, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Wooden entry gates open to a terraced idyll linked by a brick stairway that meanders down to the front of the main house.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The island proves to be a lush, tropical idyll that rarely poses any real threat to the castaways.
    — Meg Walters, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2022
  • His family’s move to Savannah, when Thomas was six, brought this idyll to an end.
    — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 21 June 2019
  • But, with just a few clicks, this rural idyll was turned into a dangerous rager.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 12 July 2023
  • About an hour and a half south of Boston — and some 20 minutes from Newport — the idyll makes for a charming summer escape.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2018
  • At the same time, for many young Americans in the second decade of the 21st century, the choice is not between a summer job and a summer idyll.
    — Time, 29 June 2017
  • In an idyll that would not look out of place in Heidi, the animals spend the summer on pasture in the hills about 10 kilometers away.
    — Lisa Abend/zurich, Time, 22 Sep. 2022
  • To a boy born and raised in Galicia, France was a paradise of liberty and prosperity, but the idyll was short-lived.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Here, behind the gates of 749 Fuera Lane, all of that is possible in a lush private idyll with stunning mountain views.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 22 Feb. 2024
  • This surrealist idyll isn’t too far-fetched, say a team of researchers from China, Italy and Japan.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz Africa, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Today is a blue-sky idyll, with light winds from the southwest urging the warm saltwater breakers onto the shore.
    — Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022
  • Take Mom on this lovely loop hike that starts in lush Fern Dell, a surprisingly woodsy idyll that will be hard to leave behind.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
  • The idyll of Hawaii — in the pre-vaccine era — prompted complicated emotions.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The roar of jets and exploding shells smashes this idyll as the children are forced to take refuge in a basement with their families and neighbors.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022

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