How to Use milieu in a Sentence
milieu
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Fifty-eight years on from the film’s milieu, too few lessons have been learned.
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Guy Lodge,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2021
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Which brings us to Michael, and the milieu that surrounds it.
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Hillary Busis,
Vanity Fair,
26 Apr. 2026
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Plus, Daryl gets a new favorite weapon, one that fits the milieu.
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Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
8 Sep. 2023
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Jahn seems to have dwelled in a similar milieu.
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Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
27 Sep. 2025
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Here are just seven paintings from that milieu.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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Its milieu is young and left-leaning, and its tone is dry, sharp, and cerebral.
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Katy Waldman,
The New Yorker,
19 Aug. 2020
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What works for him is that, out of that milieu, his instincts take him to the right answer.
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Maggie Haberman,
Orange County Register,
8 Apr. 2017
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These words are of their era, of their milieu, of a reality no longer there.
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Chris Jones,
chicagotribune.com,
31 May 2018
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Even so, bookshelves’ worth of literary works have been set in that milieu.
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Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Mar. 2023
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And that’s the milieu that this character is growing up through.
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Fiction Non Fiction
june 5,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2025
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Indeed, although it must be said that the next stop, the sandbar, was more its milieu.
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Ezra Dyer,
Popular Mechanics,
11 July 2019
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To me, this is a very telling remark about the milieu in which West has found herself.
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Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
22 Mar. 2026
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Thus the grim milieu is graced with something gentler, more playful.
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John Domini,
chicagotribune.com,
7 Aug. 2019
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Thus the grim milieu is graced with something gentler, more playful.
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John Domini,
Washington Post,
22 July 2019
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Even in this milieu, Tate’s violent rhetoric stands out.
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Heidi Blake,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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And that just became an interesting milieu for the movie to take place.
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Wilson Chapman,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2022
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That heady milieu would cause most young people (say, her bus-mates) to lose themselves in the fame bubble.
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Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
7 July 2024
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But experts said the presence of the group in the milieu of the protest movement is troubling.
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Will Carless,
USA TODAY,
25 May 2024
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In this diverse milieu, the children found their way to a new common language.
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Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2022
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The milieu of this show is rich with the kind of fine, knowing detail that makes for great television.
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Noel Murray,
Vulture,
18 Nov. 2024
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High performance is spawned and nurtured in a milieu of freedom.
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Chip Bell,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Into this milieu comes a 12-year-old boy, Atari, the ward of the mayor.
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Christopher Wallenberg,
BostonGlobe.com,
22 Mar. 2018
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Both take place among an affluent milieu of anxious mothers.
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Alison Herman,
Variety,
11 Dec. 2025
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Aja is an able horror-monsieur who has already worked in the water monster milieu.
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Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Feb. 2026
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First amongst these is the depiction of the milieu awaiting in the large house that serves as camp headquarters.
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Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
18 May 2026
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Two, students die a lot, partly as a result of this macabre Montessori milieu.
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Jason Kehe,
Wired,
14 Dec. 2020
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That, too, added to the unstable milieu of the club's first-ever postseason berth.
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Cincinnati Enquirer,
The Enquirer,
31 Mar. 2023
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How unusual is this in their social milieu in the nineteen-sixties?
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Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
23 Nov. 2025
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The role was, in some ways, a departure from Fanning’s usual milieu.
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Esther Zuckerman,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Dec. 2024
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But this is an unforgiving milieu.
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David Morgan,
CBS News,
16 Feb. 2026
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