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How to use idyll in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word idyll? Here are some examples.

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Born in 1901, her childhood was a happy idyll enough until World War One awakened her to reality.
But eighteen months, a storybook wedding and an adorable but accidental baby later, Kitty's life isn't the perfect idyll she thought it would be.
But in the weeks ahead the concept of Europe is going to be more than just a bureaucratic nightmare or a holiday idyll.
Now the proposals have been approved by planning officers and the final hurdle to the creation of their perfect rural idyll has been crossed.
Will the proposed financial and lifestyle benefits prove enough to tempt workers to a rural idyll?
The countryside idyll of my Cheshire birthplace is, sadly, the most boring place on earth.
The life of a bondager was no rural idyll, but one of long hours and hard work born with patient dignity.
Although my childhood holidays were spent mostly in rural Perthshire, I have come to view the bucolic idyll with suspicion.
Bring along a baguette and a bottle of vin blanc and join the judge for an idyll in the French countryside.
It is the only quarter of the imperial family's home open to the public and offers a little idyll in the chaos and concrete of Tokyo.
On the big screen, however, Oban has always been portrayed as a pastoral idyll.
Still the dominant phonetic presence is of light vowels and soft consonants, a bright but increasingly fragile idyll asking to be shattered.
Just like Rousseau, Finlay has created an art which sets the notion of the Arcadian idyll against mankind's extreme barbarity.
What kind of idyll was it that was supposed to emerge from this ugly, vindictive battle?
These signs were fixed at pedestrian crossings, junctions in residential roads and even on posts in the woodland idyll of Ham Common.
It was quite clear that the garden he was describing was an English idyll sprouting cow parsley, chestnut trees and long green grass.
He was just 40, and in this rural idyll he began to paint landscapes filled with lush, exuberant nature.
In his famous 17th century work, he wrote of the Arcadian idyll of the piscator, fishing the rivers of England for salmon.
If the first half of the novel is an idyll, the second half shifts to romance.
Each idyll is a society in the distant future or the remote past that can be held up as a noble alternative to American society.
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Examples from Classical Literature
She is the idyll of our shanty, and our regard for her approaches to idolatry.
The refrain of the poem increases its resemblance to the form of a Greek idyll.
But he had the distinct feeling that there was something wrong with this idyll.
Compare this idyll, in respect to reality, with the other two you have studied.
She ought to act in an idyll by Theocritus, as he was a Sicilian like herself.
They were both silent for a long time and in the silence the idyll was re-lived.
This ought to have completed the idyll, but it seemed, on the contrary, to put an end to it.
It swallowed up the delicious idyll in a boat and the mutilated immortality of famous bas-reliefs.
An occasional fireman passed, watching over their melancholy idyll from afar.
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