How to Use milieu in a Sentence

milieu

noun

• There’s the milieu of the cell, the cell is doing its thing.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• The same goes for this blue dot fixed in its green milieu.
  — Jessica Boddy, Popular Science, 31 May 2020
• Fifty-eight years on from the film’s milieu, too few lessons have been learned.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2021
• Plus, Daryl gets a new favorite weapon, one that fits the milieu.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
• Into this milieu comes a 12-year-old boy, Atari, the ward of the mayor.
  — Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• But experts said the presence of the group in the milieu of the protest movement is troubling.
  — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 25 May 2024
• This is the milieu where Skip Bayless honed his warped mind.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2023
• For the most part the 400-year-old text and updated milieu mesh nicely.
  — Allison Adato, EW.com, 12 June 2019
• Its milieu is young and left-leaning, and its tone is dry, sharp, and cerebral.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2020
• The onus is on the performers to flesh out the milieu — one of the reasons the play is a favorite of acting students.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Indeed, although it must be said that the next stop, the sandbar, was more its milieu.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2019
• These words are of their era, of their milieu, of a reality no longer there.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2018
• On the right, the mushroom cloud of a bomb looms over swirls of factory smoke, the scene a motley milieu of muddied grays and browns.
  — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
• There are movies that attend to the game itself and the nuances of play; then there are those that focus on the social milieu in and around the game.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
• That heady milieu would cause most young people (say, her bus-mates) to lose themselves in the fame bubble.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 7 July 2024
• Vance’s law school friend, the one who talked about his beard, told me that Vance was wrestling with the values of his new milieu throughout his time at Yale.
  — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022
• This was the milieu in which Sui began her life as an adult, dazzling and askew, all the brighter for its dark undertow.
  — Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• Whatever your milieu, the medium is now yours to choose.
  — Liz Maynes-Aminzade, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• In this diverse milieu, the children found their way to a new common language.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2022
• And that just became an interesting milieu for the movie to take place.
  — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 18 Mar. 2022
• Even so, bookshelves’ worth of literary works have been set in that milieu.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• Amid the debauchery of the milieu, ugly incidents presage the Nazi takeover.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
• She's swept into his WASP-y milieu, charmed by his manners and thrilled by his wild stories and lust.
  — Marci Schmitt, Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
• That, too, added to the unstable milieu of the club's first-ever postseason berth.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 31 Mar. 2023
• Read full article The other tweak is the milieu, which is Broadway.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• Thus the grim milieu is graced with something gentler, more playful.
  — John Domini, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• But the milieu is allowed to be as (and usually more) interesting as the man who finds himself in the midst of it.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 11 Oct. 2022
• Think of it as a celebration of the avant-garde, Houston roots and an East Village milieu set to a soundtrack of '70s-era rock.
  — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
• In the early two-thousands, American indie films drifted away from hedged yards and time-shares and toward the twee apartments of the mumblecore milieu.
  — Elena Saavedra Buckley, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024
• Town Square emerges as a complex social milieu with its own rules, and its own consequential choices.
  — The New Yorker, 12 June 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024