How to Use the natural world in a Sentence

the natural world

noun
  • Many of the chapters are attuned to the beauty of the natural world.
    The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • All of us love the natural world and feel drawn to trying to align with the poetry of its rhythms.
    Spin Contributor, SPIN, 28 June 2023
  • Much of the violence in the story is rooted in the natural world.
    Taylor Penley, Fox News, 12 July 2023
  • The plays express concern for the destruction of the natural world at the cost of human life.
    Time, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The building of the artificial state came at the expense of the natural world.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The woods, the streams, the snowy hills the friends career off—the natural world is a space as enchanted and real as Hobbes himself.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • All this is based on us knowing a tiny fraction of what’s going on in the natural world around us.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 10 May 2024
  • There is only the wonder and terror of the natural world, and the unfathomable losses we are asked to live past in the face of it.
    Kayti Burt, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Spend time outdoors and connect with the natural world.
    Bronwen Sciortino, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • His ardor for the natural world and the creatures in it still reaches and touches his readers.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Engaging with the natural world can sew a sense of wonder into our day-to-day.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 22 June 2023
  • It will be curated around three zones—Land, Sea, and Sky—all of which are intended as an homage to the natural world.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 3 May 2024
  • The film starts with a young girl, Maia, dashing through the undergrowth in a moonlit wood, her heart racing in sync with the rhythm of the natural world.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 July 2024
  • Take the Connectedness To Nature Scale to know how your love of the natural world stacks up with others.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
  • That day on the beach in Antalya, her grandmother introduced her to the strangeness of the natural world.
    WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • Give Back to Nature The winter solstice is a time to celebrate the natural world.
    Nena Farrell, Sunset Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
  • That said, the rest of the graphics sometimes look like something from the Wii era; Pikmin 4’s take on the natural world is much prettier.
    PCMAG, 30 Apr. 2024
  • As ingenious as we humans may be, the natural world is even smarter.
    Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
  • People became aware of their gardens as a portal to the natural world.
    Stephen Orr, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Many of the world’s leading drugs originated in the natural world.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
  • As the title might suggest, Hassinger’s art keeps one foot in the natural world and the other in industry.
    Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The project also faces challenges outside the natural world.
    Fabiano Maisonnave, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
  • Children spent more time outside and were more connected to the natural world.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024
  • The event’s curators told Vogue that the exhibition will be shaped around three main zones—Land, Sea, and Sky—that pay tribute to the natural world.
    Glamour, 6 May 2024
  • Williams sees the strangeness of people, and her stories engage with the spiritual and with the natural world.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Take the Connectedness to Nature Scale to find out how your love of the natural world compares to your friends and family.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • The landscape’s rugged beauty instilled in her an affinity for the patterns and textures of the natural world.
    Aimee Farrell Emli Bendixen, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Like Reichardt, Carr was impelled by the natural world, its enigmas.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • The setting was fitting, since Ambrose is about to become bonded with, and haunted by, the natural world.
    Rachel Sherman, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Both Harvest and April make space within the walls of the frame for the natural world to open up: for grass to rustle, for the sky to open, for mud to bubble and slap and sully all that is precious and may never again be so clean.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024

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