How to Use countryside in a Sentence

countryside

noun
  • We took a long drive through the open countryside.
  • Clichy grew up in the countryside, too.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 20 May 2026
  • Much of the ride time is spent in rural countryside and small towns.
    — John Pana, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Races take place over weeks, and hundreds of miles of countryside.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Ground forces advanced across the countryside and pressed in on three sides.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The fresh air of the countryside was healing.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Any basic doctor can do it both in the city and the countryside.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 21 Jan. 2023
  • But a city is not a dead place, and a countryside is not so haphazard.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Not all pubs are in the middle of the countryside with roaring fires.
    — Rebecca Rose, Travel + Leisure, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The city bustled with more people who had moved in from the countryside.
    — Raheem Hosseini, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Guardiola filled up with diesel and took a spin in the countryside.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • That means fuel is piling up in the countryside, ready to burn.
    — Wired, 21 July 2022
  • Or that the church, its hall and parsonage once sat in open countryside.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2022
  • Plenty of cliffs, woods and rural countryside are seen along the way.
    — Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Across the countryside, the effect of permafrost is plain to see.
    — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Bourgeois is a French word for a person from a town in the countryside.
    — Benjamin Nugent, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
  • One of them invites the other to come spend a long weekend at their house in the countryside.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2022
  • My wife, on the other hand, has always had a dream of living in the countryside.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Mourners lined the streets in the countryside to get a glimpse at the procession.
    — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Some of the countryside was the same — without a Jaguar but with a big ax instead.
    — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Their greatest friend turned out to be the laboring poor of the countryside.
    — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • And now, anyone looking for some time in the countryside has more reasons to head south.
    — Delia Rose Sauer, Miami Herald, 19 June 2026
  • Think of this fragrance as an escape to the Greek countryside!
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Prince Charles is known for his love of the countryside and his passion for plants and nature.
    — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 19 Aug. 2021
  • This was where the trucks and vans that had ferried us to this spot in the Polish countryside were parked.
    — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 6 June 2024
  • To view the most meteors, get away to the countryside and find a dark sky location.
    — Dean Regas, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Tiernivsky spent the early days of the war with his girlfriend in a cabin out in the countryside.
    — Johnny O'Reilly, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Along the trail, watch for wildlife, barns dotting the countryside, and scenic river overlooks.
    — Robin Pfeifer, Midwest Living, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The crime has now leaked out from the capital and started to rise in other cities and in the countryside.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Dayao and his pregnant wife, Tiantian, live in the countryside but work themselves to the bone in the city.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2026

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