How to Use sylvan in a Sentence

sylvan

adjective

• The sylvan acreage around the Connecticut house was a precious refuge for the girls.
  — Alexandra Styron, Town & Country, 31 Dec. 2012
• Private, sylvan area in Ann Arbor city, full of wildlife.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 13 Aug. 2017
• European cities tend to be less sylvan and the trees more manicured.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 17 July 2019
• What the scientists were talking about in their sylvan hideaway was how to build a machine that could think.
  — Jules Julien, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2018
• There is darkness in this story — which is, on the whole, a happy, sylvan version of the pandemic.
  — Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• By morning, like a sylvan Cinderella, its white petals wilt before the sun ever gets a shot at a kiss.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2017
• These ceaseless sylvan stand-offs rarely involve trees as storied as those at Fairy Creek.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2021
• His wide-eyed encounter with an old mole who pops up just to pass the time of day is typical of a fawnhood full of sylvan surprises.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 1 Jan. 1950
• Debased with posters and signs, the posts nonetheless retain something of their sylvan essence.
  — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2021
• Service is friendly and polished, the look stylishly sylvan.
  — Travel + Leisure Staff, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2020
• This was New Canaan, a sylvan place of old-money mansions and modern farmhouses built with Wall Street bonuses.
  — Sarah Schweitzer, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2019
• Our Typhoon swaggered into sylvan Ann Arbor dressed in inky, Texas-tea black.
  — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 19 May 2020
• Night after night, Charlie climbs into her sylvan haven.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2018
• One woman does yoga in a sylvan breezeway; another plays the drums in a spacious studio with branches lapping at the windows.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2022
• There’s a sense of gentle motion in the sylvan landscapes now at Multiple Exposures Gallery, as if they’ve been shot through rain or are partly cloaked by swaying vines.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 19 July 2019
• No sooner has Isabel arrived at the ceremony, which takes place on a sylvan estate, than her past rises up to engulf her.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2019
• Each property contains about 30 to 50 structures on double-digit acres of sylvan land.
  — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2020
• Amid the sylvan tranquility of the Berkeley hills neighborhood, an image of a snarling predator, fangs bared, stares down at passersby from atop a pole planted in the yard of a sprawling Tudor-style home.
  — Todd Woody, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2021
• Winding sylvan trails in the small reserves allow birders to approach these normally elusive birds up close.
  — Bruce M. Beehler, Smithsonian, 16 Apr. 2018
• Porsches and Teslas share its sylvan, serpentine roads with high-end racing bicycles.
  — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2021
• Latrobe’s dream of a sylvan Athens, a city defined as much by its art and culture as its tumultuous politics, is made real in several of these paintings.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2019
• Ratcliffe, 44, is an accountant from the sylvan London neighborhood of West Hampstead.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 23 June 2019
• Steel and concrete fade into sylvan trails that wind past lakes and waterfalls, all of it not too far from the cavernous and efficient airport, part of a renowned transport network of subways, buses, trams and ferries.
  — Keith Bradsher, The Seattle Times, 29 June 2017
• In her early adulthood, Pelton painted nostalgic scenes of Grecian maidens in sylvan glades, two of which appeared in the seminal .
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2020
• Steel and concrete fade into sylvan trails that wind past lakes and waterfalls, all of it not too far from the city’s cavernous and efficient airport, part of a renowned transport network of subways, buses, trams and ferries.
  — Keith Bradsher Photographs By Lam Yik Fei, New York Times, 29 June 2017
• In October, these gorges are typically packed with the yellow leaves of soaring sugar maples that light up like the sun — a striking contrast to the Virginia creeper that adds splashes of blood red to the sylvan surroundings.
  — Lori Rackl, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• Time has seen tree roots overtake the stonework, and the resulting sylvan maze is equal parts post-apocalyptic fantasy and a sobering reminder of our humanity.
  — Cynthia Drescher, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Apr. 2018
• The Long Beach Shakespeare Company returns to in-person performance with this sylvan fantasy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2021
• The park is not an outdoor destination now but a shell of its former — and, hopefully, future — self that looks nothing like billboards posted at the site picturing a sylvan wonderland.
  — Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2020
• Liberals, on the other hand, see a capitalist horror show, where the rich dwell in gilded mansions, ensconced in sylvan culs-de-sac, while nearby towns face rising poverty and bankruptcy.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 5 July 2017

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024