How to Use idyll in a Sentence

idyll

noun
  • This idyll can change within hours.
    — Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2026
  • But his last two years proved anything but an idyll.
    — Jane Kamensky, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Designed like a sunroom, the lounge in the garage is an idyll that lets in the light.
    — Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar, Architectural Digest, 3 July 2024
  • But that sequence of prose idylls was the core of the collection.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Out back, the garden is the kind of English idyll dreams are made of.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 16 June 2025
  • But for now, their great Forest Hills idyll has to come to an end.
    — Kayla Levy, Curbed, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Indeed, nary a fast-food chain nor big-box store mars this historic postcard idyll.
    — Staff Author Published, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Reading Frost’s poems as mere odes to rural idylls de-fangs them.
    — Tyler Malone, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
  • Videos from the scene of the attack showed a summertime idyll destroyed.
    — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
  • But, with just a few clicks, this rural idyll was turned into a dangerous rager.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 12 July 2023
  • But when a landowner comes to claim the property, their idyll is threatened.
    — Joumana Khatib, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Their island idyll is cut short by tragedy, which coincides with a cholera outbreak in the city.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
  • Dickie was - obviously in the book, this sort of idyll, right?
    — Jeff Conway, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Their idyll was shattered when Johnson was forced to move out of her home, the couple said.
    — CNN, 27 June 2019
  • 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
  • The bench had become the locus of a kind of unhurried urban idyll.
    — Anne Quito, Quartzy, 24 Sep. 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
  • Somehow the zombies have reached this isolated rural idyll and things go south fast.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
  • That this idyll is bound to expire, sooner or later, goes without saying.
    — Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Then, one day, a dark cloud appeared, as if summoned by a witch jealous of their domestic idyll.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • By lunchtime this Italian idyll had become our entire universe.
    — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Mar. 2026
  • In subsequent books, the outside world impinges on Roz’s idyll.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
  • The island proves to be a lush, tropical idyll that rarely poses any real threat to the castaways.
    — Meg Walters, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The present is uncomfortable and off-kilter, and the memory—the wild swim—is an idyll.
    — The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • But the trend at the giddiest heights of real estate isn’t the waft of a Brady Bunch idyll.
    — Air Mail, 22 Mar. 2025
  • His family’s move to Savannah, when Thomas was six, brought this idyll to an end.
    — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 21 June 2019
  • 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

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