How to Use the natural world in a Sentence

the natural world

noun
  • His demise fit with the fading of the rest of the natural world.
    — Liz Shulman, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • But diatoms punch far above their weight in the natural world.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The point is not to restrain the natural world, but to compose it.
    — Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • What happens to the natural world happens to all of us.
    — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
  • And yet this bird performs one of the most violent feats in the natural world.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • In the natural world, a stable desert crust can take 5 to 10 years to form.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Those writers are trying to make the natural world or a painting come alive to a reader via text.
    — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The new glasses serve as a liaison between the natural world and the world wide web.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 23 June 2026
  • Like many bands of the era, Seals & Crofts sang of love, peace, music and the natural world.
    — ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The sky, the ocean, the natural world dominate the landscape.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • And our dominance over the natural world is now more or less universal.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026
  • But if not, the shift in the natural world simply wasn't part of your seasonable routine.
    — Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The need to study, understand and better manage the natural world is vast.
    — Joe Murphy, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Our eyes developed to use light to see the natural world, not to turn energy from the sun into food.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Slow down, and let technology bring you closer to the natural world.
    — Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Consider keeping them on your plant as a reminder of how adaptable the natural world can be.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But finding potential new drugs from the natural world can be a long and expensive process.
    — Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Waking up to the dawn chorus of birds—one of the natural world’s greatest symphonies—is a joy like no other.
    — JSTOR Daily, 10 Oct. 2025
  • In the natural world, returning to yourself can be as simple as walking away.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
  • And with her grandmother, young Bud learns to pay attention to the natural world, too.
    — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Both of them are very abstract visions and understandings of the natural world.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2026
  • While deeply grounded in the natural world, Palmer brings a systems thinker’s approach to the business.
    — Nia Bowers, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The sounds of nature Stewart has focused on the sounds of the natural world for more than 60 years.
    — Bill Whitaker, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • In his 11th video, Matt talks about how the natural world serves as the inspiration for his art.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Continue to feel gratitude for the natural world that supports us, for the stars and moon bright in the night sky, and for those who love us.
    — Cheryl Isaacs, PEOPLE, 23 Nov. 2025
  • This five-piece set reimagines the natural world, with scents inspired by mother of pearl, coral reefs, and crystalline structures.
    — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Earth Month invites us to pause from our hectic lives to appreciate the natural world all around us.
    — John Calvelli, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • That disability is part of the natural world, and not an anomaly to be corrected.
    — Polly Atkin august 26, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This tragedy is a painful reminder of both the beauty and unpredictability of the natural world.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Alan Jacobs on the evolution of writing about the natural world.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Apr. 2026

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