How to Use bucolic in a Sentence

bucolic

adjective
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  • The giant doors have been replaced by glass and frame a bucolic view of distant grazing sheep.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Animals are welcome, as the bucolic grounds also hold a three-stall barn.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2020
  • There’s no doubt these homes are visually bucolic, both on the silver screen and in-person today.
    — Stefanie Waldek, House Beautiful, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The seemingly bucolic name is nothing more than an homage to the couple’s go-to dining spot in their native Hong Kong.
    — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2021
  • From this almost bucolic beginning, the movie gallops into action.
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Hike, kayak, and bike your way through stunning scenery, bucolic oceanside villages, and family-run farms without having to worry about mapping your own course.
    — Sunset Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
  • At the end of the first episode, Piper, playing an actress named Suzie Pickles, careens down the high street of a bucolic English village.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2020
  • The area, including greater Santa Ynez, boasts bucolic vineyards, farms, restaurants, olive trees, riding stables, a zipline, and even an ostrich farm to visit.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • 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 bucolic upstate lake home that most of the movie takes place in was built by her late architect husband, Owen (Evan Jonigkeit).
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2021
  • This bucolic Kentucky scene could be lifted straight from a movie.
    — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2023

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