How to Use halcyon in a Sentence

halcyon

adjective
  • Here’s to those halcyon days of the torpedo bat.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Tim’s view At a glance, the next few years look like halcyon days for the gas industry.
    — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The halcyon days when a Nokia brick phone would last for a week on a single battery charge are over.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Close your eyes and recall the halcyon days of 2011.
    — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025
  • First four picks have defense headed back towards halcyon days.
    — Eddie Brown, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 May 2017
  • But war had somehow changed since the halcyon days of Tommy and Fritz.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Still, there is nothing halcyon about Brown’s vision of the future.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2018
  • With each year, more Americans don’t even recall such halcyon days.
    — Jackie Calmes, Mercury News, 19 June 2026
  • There’s comfort in talk of restoration, of a halcyon era recovered.
    — Ian MacDougall, Harper's Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Disney’s most effective sales pitch is a throwback to the halcyon days of cable.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Four decades later, PIR is taking a trip back to its halcyon days.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 21 June 2023
  • For some locals, the memory of lockdown has taken on a halcyon glow.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Philosopher Nick Bostrom thinks this halcyon world could bring a new age entirely.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But over the years, his halcyon memories of swimming there with family and friends have darkened to a cold, isolated present.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
  • And so the first few seasons will be a halcyon period of relatively few visitors.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Of course, This Is Spinal Tap is a document from well after the band's halcyon days.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • And especially when almost no one alive today still remembers just how many child-sized coffins were involved in the halcyon pre-vaccine days when nature got to take its course.
    — ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026
  • And especially when almost no one alive today still remembers just how many child-sized coffins were involved in the halcyon pre-vaccine days when nature got to take its course.
    — Diana Gitig, ArsTechnica, 30 May 2026
  • The halcyon days of editors Condé Nast editors wining and dining on the company dime are over.
    — Andrew Limbong, NPR, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The Dolphins are Shula and Marino and halcyon days ever-distant.
    — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Park City will always be the shining city on a hill — or, mountain top — where the halcyon days of American independent film played out.
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 7 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • His one weakness, even during those halcyon Dallas days, was his iffy fitness and, by proxy, mediocre-to-nonexistent defensive effort.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025

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