idyl
- a variation of idyll.
Example Sentences
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We were like lovers estranged, searching for a lost idyl that couldn't be reclaimed.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2022
In 1939, the year of America's last idyl, friends and family play out their lives in the Midwestern mill town, impervious to the Great Depression and the war that has already begun a world away.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He could be a small businessman decompressing amiably between a week's rash of orders and the idyl of a suburban weekend.
From Time Magazine Archive
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That idyl ended abruptly when Marichal pitched Manzanillo to a 2-1 victory over a Dominican air force team sponsored by Ramfis Trujillo, eldest son of El Benefactor, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina.
From Time Magazine Archive
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What the boy has done is to make of it a true Canadian idyl.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)