How to Use bucolic in a Sentence

bucolic

adjective
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  • Its label and image conjures up bucolic scenes of pure mountains and rivers.
    — Michael Kohn, oregonlive, 4 Mar. 2021
  • There's also Provence, filled with bucolic villages and lavender fields.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Last year, dead fish started washing up on the banks of the river that runs by their home in a bucolic village in southeastern Serbia.
    — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Outside the glass walls, diners can observe the bucolic farm setting with Autumnal foliage and rows of the season’s crop harvest.
    — Caitlin Palumbo, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Some also contend that rows of metal solar panels or wind turbines would disturb the bucolic vistas — or fragile ecosystems — of the countryside.
    — Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Dawn Reinfeld moved to Colorado 30 years ago to attend college in the bucolic town of Boulder.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Many residents here see vineyards, wineries and hotels as destructive forces in their community, making their bucolic home a kind of Disneyland.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Privately, however, the artist much preferred painting bucolic landscapes—a penchant reflected in his letter about the viola da gamba.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Other covers featured illustrations of Black children in bucolic settings.
    — Anna Holmes, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2021
  • The front shows a bucolic scene of what this place once was.
    — Nick Watt, CNN, 28 Mar. 2022
  • In the spring, the wildflowers bloom and the bucolic scenery comes to life.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2022
  • For decades, the area was known for farmland, with bucolic rows of cows and crops.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The tree man is shown in the midst of a bucolic landscape with a city skyline in the distance.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 23 Oct. 2022
  • From the outside, the bucolic scene seems peaceful and serene.
    — Janine Schindler, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Who doesn't dream of living off the land in a bucolic paradise?
    — Allison Duncan, House Beautiful, 19 July 2023
  • There are shots of sprawling forests and bucolic Flowery Branch, a small town on the shores of Lake Lanier.
    — Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Breath of the Wild is set in a bucolic, open world that begs exploration.
    — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The bucolic setting does not, in any way, call to mind high fashion.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 13 June 2022
  • Turn left and sail along the brief, bucolic drive that leads to your home for the weekend: Dillon Beach Resort.
    — Amber Turpin, The Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2024
  • If all this and more sound good to you, make the drive to the bucolic Huntsville State Park with 21 miles of trails, playground, a bird blind and nature center.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Chron, 29 May 2022
  • And in the South, herds of hippos would soak like submarines in the bucolic waters of their riverside ranches.
    — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2023
  • The bucolic village of Three Pines, where most of Penny’s novels are set, has not been spared from covid-19.
    — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Laurent The terrace at Laurent is in a bucolic setting that’s just steps from the Champs-Élysées.
    — Jade Simon, Vogue, 21 June 2024
  • Weekenders come for the state parks, the bucolic vistas, art galleries and antique shops.
    — Everett Potter, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • But during the decades the mine was in operation, the area would have been anything but bucolic.
    — John Hanc, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
  • That meant once-bucolic villages on the city’s perimeter, like tiny Lukashivka, were not a safe haven.
    — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
  • After more than a week of focusing on an area south of the county jail, the search moved about 30 miles to the north, to a bucolic stretch of stone barns and thick woods south of Pottstown, Pa.
    — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Before that, Ohio's license featured a bucolic farm scene next to a cityscape that then-Gov.
    — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 21 Oct. 2021
  • In the end, Mr. Douthat’s illness defeats his bucolic dream.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The Manson murders marked the midpoint of that, this dark wave that no one was suspecting in this bucolic place.
    — Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024

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