How to Use sylvan in a Sentence

sylvan

adjective
  • European cities tend to be less sylvan and the trees more manicured.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 2019-07-17
  • The sylvan acreage around the Connecticut house was a precious refuge for the girls.
    — Alexandra Styron, Town & Country, 2012-12-31
  • Private, sylvan area in Ann Arbor city, full of wildlife.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 2017-08-13
  • Night after night, Charlie climbs into her sylvan haven.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 2018-08-21
  • What the scientists were talking about in their sylvan hideaway was how to build a machine that could think.
    — Jules Julien, Smithsonian, 2018-03-21
  • These ceaseless sylvan stand-offs rarely involve trees as storied as those at Fairy Creek.
    — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 2021-10-20
  • Service is friendly and polished, the look stylishly sylvan.
    — Travel + Leisure Staff, Travel + Leisure, 2020-02-19
  • There is darkness in this story — which is, on the whole, a happy, sylvan version of the pandemic.
    — Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 2021-11-02
  • By morning, like a sylvan Cinderella, its white petals wilt before the sun ever gets a shot at a kiss.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 2017-09-15
  • His wide-eyed encounter with an old mole who pops up just to pass the time of day is typical of a fawnhood full of sylvan surprises.
    — Lily Rothman, Time, 1950-01-01
  • Porsches and Teslas share its sylvan, serpentine roads with high-end racing bicycles.
    — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 2021-09-28
  • Our Typhoon swaggered into sylvan Ann Arbor dressed in inky, Texas-tea black.
    — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 2020-05-19
  • No sooner has Isabel arrived at the ceremony, which takes place on a sylvan estate, than her past rises up to engulf her.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2019-08-09
  • This was New Canaan, a sylvan place of old-money mansions and modern farmhouses built with Wall Street bonuses.
    — Sarah Schweitzer, The Atlantic, 2019-08-15
  • Time has seen tree roots overtake the stonework, and the resulting sylvan maze is equal parts post-apocalyptic fantasy and a sobering reminder of our humanity.
    — Cynthia Drescher, Condé Nast Traveler, 2018-04-16
  • There is a wild creativity and feral quality to how the children, willing collaborators in this sylvan fairy tale, present themselves.
    — Robert Frank, National Geographic, 2020-04-24
  • Steel and concrete fade into sylvan trails that wind past lakes and waterfalls, all of it not too far from the cavernous and efficient airport, part of a renowned transport network of subways, buses, trams and ferries.
    — Keith Bradsher, The Seattle Times, 2017-06-29
  • Ratcliffe, 44, is an accountant from the sylvan London neighborhood of West Hampstead.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 2019-06-23
  • Amid the sylvan tranquility of the Berkeley hills neighborhood, an image of a snarling predator, fangs bared, stares down at passersby from atop a pole planted in the yard of a sprawling Tudor-style home.
    — Todd Woody, Anchorage Daily News, 2021-12-07
  • Scientists are also designing proteins with amino acid compositions similar to those in feed made of fish but created from sawdust and other forest residue plentiful in the sylvan state of Maine.
    — Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American, 2022-05-01
  • The trees line up smartly in front of a condo and commercial complex that once was a railroad freight storage facility, providing shade and a welcome sylvan note along a busy thoroughfare near Union Depot.
    — Pioneer Press Editorial Board, Twin Cities, 2017-06-15
  • In October, these gorges are typically packed with the yellow leaves of soaring sugar maples that light up like the sun — a striking contrast to the Virginia creeper that adds splashes of blood red to the sylvan surroundings.
    — Lori Rackl, chicagotribune.com, 2019-08-19
  • Patrons of the Eunice Bonner Senior Center can now add long strolls through a sylvan setting to their itineraries of lunches, art classes, yoga, and socializing.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 2022-06-10

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