Thesaurus results for IDYLLS

idylls

noun

variants also idyls

plural of idyll

as in sprees

a time or instance of carefree fun her year as a vineyard worker in the south of France was not the idyll that she had expected it to be

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Recent Examples of idylls If powder-white beaches, turquoise waters, and lush jungles are at the top of your travel itinerary, the following 11 idylls are must-gos, where nature is at its most relaxed and pleasurable. —

Skyli Alvarez, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 May 2026 But while Provo has become developed, its neighbors, Parrish assured me, remain timeless idylls, their empty interiors encircled by endless beaches fringed with casuarina trees. —

Henry Wismayer, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026 But that sequence of prose idylls was the core of the collection. —

Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025 The 70-year-old star has always swung for the fences — often literally, in pastoral baseball idylls like Bull Durham and Field of Dreams — with bold, risky choices. —

Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025

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Singer Bradley Nowell drunk-steered his band through sordid anthems, crashing through references to classic ska and dancehall songs, shouting out Rudimentary Peni and Geto Boys, and re-setting the murder ballads and drug sprees of outlaw country in suburban California.

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 15 June 2026
The surge in pink slips started in 2023, when companies that had gone on hiring sprees during the COVID-19 pandemic began to cut back.

— Lily Wright, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026