Garden of Eden
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The forest becomes a Garden of Eden, marred by human transgressions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
The Garden of Eden surely had palm trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
It could have been the Garden of Eden, so rich was the promise of paradise.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2023
Not since our expulsion from the Garden of Eden have we, as a race, felt as guilty as we do today.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
It was a Garden of Eden of a hellish sort: isolated, untouched, parched, and rocky—turds of congealed lava overrun by “hideous iguanas,” tortoises, and birds.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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