Idyll in a sentence

For the Hösses, who in their youth were members of an idealistic back-to-the-land movement, life in Auschwitz was something of an idyll, Glazer came to grasp.

Sleepy rural idyll it may be, but once this was a tough border town, brought to importance by a ford on the nearby River Severn.

They said: “The owner of Milton Abbey House, Joseph Damer (1st Earl of Dorchester), felt the existing village of Middleton, with all its noises and smells was disturbing his rural idyll.

From the Shropshire countryside idyll of breeding sheep and raising children, to brutal winter nights trying to avoid drug addicts and fights while rough sleeping in Shrewsbury town centre.

Hannah Duffy, the owner of Idyll Manor, which was previously located in a temporary location on Pikes Peak Avenue, was approached by the owners of The Local Honey Collective to share the space inside The Shoppe.

Within a year of its construction, this prehistoric idyll met a dramatic end.

Anyone who entertained fantasies of in a rural idyll should watch for a reality check.

The idyll ended when the lovers were discovered by the Thought Police and bundled off for interrogation and inquisition.

When his father put his age down to go to the European war, young Wally’s idyll in Ouyen was over but he kept a dream alive of owning his own farm one day.

Thailand is best known abroad as a welcoming vacation destination, a tropical idyll that seems to somehow float above the political dysfunction that has given rise to repeated military coups, student massacres and street protests.

Throw more words at it: idyll, nirvana, oasis, heaven.

A black bear ambles across the stage, two Mounties pass in ceremonial red jackets, the idyll broken suddenly by roaring chainsaws as a swarm of loggers reduce the woods to bare stage.

Hani had found the mountain idyll of her imagination.

Switzerland is well-known for its cow-bells, which are something of a national symbol, and cows grazing the beautiful hillsides to the sound of clanging cow-bells is supposedly an image of the perfect rural idyll.

They romped through the gardens, with the president expertly deflecting every attempt to ruin their idyll with talk of climate accords or very unfair nuclear deals with high-level catting about whatever deal is.

We’re certainly not the only family to have naively burnt our bridges in the UK to escape to a French idyll - and we won’t be the last.

Adapted from Runyon's stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure".

Adapted from the story "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown".

A little heroism, but not taken to great heights; a little bit of veristic comedy, but brief; a lot of sentiment and romantic idyll: this is the recipe in which he finds happiness.

Christopher Hill argues that this was not retreat into a rural idyll; Hammersmith was then a "suburban village" falling into the orbit of London, and even Horton was becoming deforested and suffered from the plague.