How To Use Ambience In A Sentence

The new wing with its harmonising fine materials and fabrics create a stylish ambience.
To improve the ambience of the village, they cleared the wild growth and widened the roads.
Tasteful decor, melodious songs and shafts of sunlight from the ample windows provide the perfect ambience for appreciating the subtleties and splendours of curry cuisine.
Fresh ideas, inventive combinations and a lively ambience inform this modern Scottish restaurant famed for giving traditional dishes a vibrant international infusion.
This lifts the ambience of a room which might otherwise be gloomy during the day. Times, Sunday Times

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This essay is a testing ground for "ambience," exploring the role of space in poetics, ideology and theory, building on the conclusion to the book The Poetics of Spice. Abstracts
The ambience is friendly, the lighting is a welcoming warm orange glow, and there are plenty of stylin' beauties to chat up at the bar.
The joy of these firms is the personal service and ambience they provide. Times, Sunday Times
This movie is an armful of horror ambience wrapped around a toothpick plot.
The ambience is already great before you get to the circuit and the track itself is just phenomenal. The Sun
Sort by ratings for food, service and ambience, or prioritise by price or how close they are to you. Times, Sunday Times
These audio jump cuts and sudden changes in ambience were also reflected in the music, as doo-wop, pop songs, political commentary, fuzz guitar rock and cocktail jazz all piled up on each other.
In a rural ambience, the games come alive again.
He was Carl Schirmer, the avatar of ennui, the eternal ephebe, always more eager for ambience than destiny. In Other Worlds
It has a quieter ambience during the day when food is an important element.
Use indirect lighting to add ambience and to enhance the sleek design of your contemporary furniture.
More importantly, the display highlights any system or area experiencing abnormal conditions, whether plant malfunction or unacceptable ambience levels.
For example, on the second floor where most work takes place, baffles, telephone booths, and various wall design make for a quieter ambience, the further one walks from front to back.
The food was delicious, the wine imbibed with much vigour and the ambience tranquil yet mellow, hearty yet calm.
White lacy curtains with dark red drapes covered the French windows, giving the room a warm, cozy ambience.
It's an ambience that fosters sharing; the best way to approach the enticing array of antipasti and snacks that precede the pizza and complement a voluminous all-Italian wine list.
The overall ambience of the room is cosy.
It appeals to his sense of what can be done to preserve an old building and still keep its ambience.
The hue contains warm yellow undertones that create a sunlit ambience.
Nestled just off the main drag of expat ghetto Holland Village, Original Sin offers laid-back ambience, attentive staff - and darn good food.
In New York, it played at the Film Forum, an admirable NYC institution, but also a boxy venue with so little ambience that it may as well be the big screen TV in an eccentric friend's basement.
So many, and not just the young, want the ambience - a louche, bohemian, coffee house style - and not the substance.
An intimate, art deco space, with a polished mahogany counter and wood-panelled walls, offers visitors with sophisticated tastes an elegant, cool ambience in which to savour whisky sours, white Russians, black Russians, daiquiris and gimlets PI Philip Marlowe's favoured tipple. 10 of the best barrio bars in Barcelona
Still, a lively, big-hearted tale, drenched in gritty working-class ambience. Traveler by Ron McLarty: Book summary
The audience soaked in the restful ambience as it looked forward to the lecture on aesthetics in Indian art and thought.
Grassed mounds, ornamental trees and a lily pond are planned to complement the serene ambience.
The stars in the sky glowed with an ambience only seen outside the urban conurbations.
The filmmaker has to create a period ambience and avoid anachronisms.
The majority of this album is built up around similar ambiences as the trio elaborate poignant melodies and impressive arrangements, complete with guitars, strings and horns.
I'm proposing a bibiobibuli award for Malaysia's squidgiest bookshop (based purely on ambience - not on the range of books they carry) and nominations are now open. Archive 2005-11-01
Sunlight streams in through the windows, highlighting the artwork and contributing to the relaxed ambience.
All the elements of outstanding success were there for the asking: the superb maritime ambience of Phuket, the December offshore north-easterlies, safe anchorages and the potential for a matchless social milieu.
We can sense minute and subtle changes in the cultural ambience of rooms. Times, Sunday Times
It takes on an ambience of solemnity, filled with memory, contemplation, and meditation.
Rich foliage, soft lighting and the quiet hum of the other diners' conversations create a welcoming ambience.
The place was really trendy, yet the ambience was very family oriented.
If you had saved up for a special dinner in classy country house ambience, you'd have been disappointed.
Braitman and Ehrenzweig like having it where they live, and feel its cooperative, relaxed ambience is very San Francisco.
The ambience of the recording simply adds to the meditative, trance-like atmosphere.
The ambience was mechanical, the chips like cardboard and the bread poor.
The interior is furnished simply but very pleasantly in keeping with the old-world cottage ambience of the house.
They bantered a few minutes more before everyone quieted down and simply enjoyed the ambience and the lullaby being sung for them.
This ambitious and cumbersome attraction was totally out of keeping with the Niagara ambience, but Barnett persisted.
Before entering the library premises, I ordered an extra shot of espresso coffee, decided to soak in the ambience and took a seat on the library's plaza.
Nor should they be concentrating on atmosphere and ambience at the expense of proper food.
The album marks a slight return to more elaborated ambiences and more defined melodic lines, yet Ford firmly remains on minimal grounds here.
Drinks range from fine rums and whiskies to brandy, while art works and coffee table books add to an ambience of exclusive sophistication.
The service was amicable, the ambience was charming, and though the prices were fairly steep for Sofia standards, the experience was worth it.
This performance at St. Burchardi Church in Halberstadt began September 5, 2001, but until last February the only sound was the building's natural ambience. Boing Boing: July 4, 2004 - July 10, 2004 Archives
Being a Silver Jubilee event, they took all necessary steps to attach the trappings of a celebrative ambience to the campus.
We've tried to create the ambience of a French bistro.
A bedecked Christmas tree and stalls selling eatables added to the ambience.
The statue has a gentleness, an ambience, a wistful elegance.
We can sense minute and subtle changes in the cultural ambience of rooms. Times, Sunday Times
Even as darkness fell outside the ambience of the Patio didn't dim and candles, as always, add to the Continental feel.
Spanish tiling, pastel shades and walls partly of exposed stone and partly of wood panels create a stylish ambience without a hint of ostentation.
The yellow ochre stippled walls inside and the cream with green accents outside on the verandah all help to produce a warm and inviting ambience.
That is the cost of the real estate, the cost of the table, and the cost to a shop's ambience when a bunch of hosers come in and spend all day staring at laptops.
The food, the environs, the ambience are all in top gear for a grand welcome to "Mahabali Chakravarthy."
Hume certainly would not have accepted the "rice theory" in explanation of the social state of the Hindoos; and, it may be safely assumed, that he would not have had recourse to the circumambience of the "melancholy main" to account for the troublous history of Ireland. Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
What I can say is that I went into the studio with James and Ewan from the band the other week to lay down my ranting recitations of Sonnets For Orpheus and Still Lives, the plan being for them to take those tracks away and add in some ambience and atmosphere. Duncan's Patent Remedy
The cold morning breeze and a festive ambience, the chime of bells and melodious carols signal the arrival of Christmas.
Container-grown plants can be arranged in endless ways to create the ambience you want.
He can play the daylights out of full-on postbop or explore north-Euro ambience, but he calls his hard-hitting Karma fusion group his "grunge band" – a misnomer for a rare splicing of rich-toned, pipe-like themes, fiercely guttural up-tempo tenor improv, Arabic and Irish music, and tight grooving. This week's new live music
The decor and ambience was unexceptional, but the personal service was top-notch and the food was very, very good.
There is incense and soft music, a relaxed ambience in contrast to Iti, who carries a ceremonial adze, his full facial moko topped with a Mohawk.
Although the service was good, the orange juice was freshly squeezed and the coffee had zing, the dining-room somehow lacked ambience at breakfast.
It is one of those restaurants where gastronomic quality is less important than artifice, ambience, and the general illusion of having a good time.
Somehow I would have thought that cycling would be an activity that would fit in easily with the ambience of the canals and waterways.
The era's hepcat lingo "ork" for orchestra, "ofay" for "white" and hard-boiled, noir ambience give Mr. Lauterbach a tune he can carry. On the Midnight Special
The ambience is already great before you get to the circuit and the track itself is just phenomenal. The Sun
They are particularly effective at lighting entryways, ornamenting the walls of formal living or dining rooms, or creating a romantic ambience in a bedroom.
The performances will be by candlelight lending a relaxed ambience to the evening.
But when a temple of style and urban sophistication founders on ambience, food and service, it doesn't leave much to cling to.
Like hotels you should have a cheerful ambience and good personalised services.
The restaurant has a pleasant ambience.
The counter, and other doors are attractively finished in Ash wood which makes for a light and airy ambience.
The era's hepcat lingo "ork" for orchestra, "ofay" for "white" and hard-boiled, noir ambience give Mr. Lauterbach a tune he can carry. On the Midnight Special
Nor should they be concentrating on atmosphere and ambience at the expense of proper food.
Ambience is the most important ingredient for any party, and the best way to change a mood is via lighting - fit dimmer switches to lower the lights as the night progresses.
Apart from creating the right ambience, damsels dressed in traditional attire of each country stood beside the display and dished out facts about the fare.
Irish bars such as Mustang Sally's, Flannery's and O'Reilly's are always worth the effort, for sheer atmosphere, ambience and fun.
The little beach hotel has a pleasant ambience.
In recent years, to create a pleasant ambience and to keep the shifting sands in check, the land around the complex was turfed.
All the elements of outstanding success were there for the asking: the superb maritime ambience of Phuket, the December offshore north-easterlies, safe anchorages and the potential for a matchless social milieu.
The warm ambience of Pulse lobby lounge is the perfect stop-off point at evening for an appetite-tempting spread of sweets and other savories, freshly prepared specialty coffees and cocktails.
In every room, pre-programmed ‘scenes’ involving different combinations of lights can be used to capture exactly the right ambience.
The Queens group woodshedded its melodic songs at an abandoned farm colony, and the constant presence of banjos, glockenspiels and xylophones lends a quaint ambience that's far removed from the digital hum of high-tech gadgetry. Chicagotribune.com -
Fortunately India had another screen-ready leading man in MS Dhoni, whose bull-necked match-winning innings chimed perfectly with the ambience. India's future is so bright they gotta wear shades | Barney Ronay
So while North Berwick refracts a little of the capital's prim ambience, Dunoon has something of Glasgow's ribaldry.
Knotty-pine wails, white tablecloths, and a sprinkling of artwork and Western memorabilia create a pleasingly rustic yet romantic ambience.
The ambience also delighted King, and they talked amicably through nine courses and three hours.
They provide the ambience in which the trendy newcomers bask.
It was short and succinct: good food, good value, but all the ambience of an aircraft hangar.
My advice is to get a few bottles of plonk at the off-licence and get down to Ethas Kitchen, only a five minute drive away - a place that oozes ambience and offers quality dishes in a very unpretentious surrounding.
All this was a bizarre contrast to the relaxed and sunny ambience Bradman enjoyed at Bowral High.
The freedom to add ambient to the ambience comes from the jukebox getting acquainted with the internet. Times, Sunday Times
The blacks of New Orleans are, in large part, what made it a great city: the jazz, the food, the poetry, the laid back ambience.
One day, this young lensman stumbled into Thanjavur only to be stumped by the period ambience of the place.
Lately, Julian's charms attract permanent residents, who hope to preserve the surrounding area's bucolic ambience.
In the main seating area, the chairs are Thonet bentwood classics finished in silver to add sparkle to the ambience.
There's a standard in ambience that one expects when retreating to the Caribbean: azure waters, powdery white sands, fanning palm trees, romantic sunsets, and inspiring views of it all at every turn.
Lynch added his atmospheric ambience and the dialogue was then synced.
Yet, at the Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit just last week, it was difficult to imagine that this talented couple was only play-acting the romantic ambience that they were creating up there on the Bangkok stage.
If you understand Spanish or French the resident fortune-teller and tarot card reader will reveal missed opportunities and future challenges in the ambience of a candlelit, red velvet 1920s bordello-like lounge. 10 of the best barrio bars in Barcelona
It was a truly superb experience, the ambience and the atmosphere was incredible.
The main thing that has been achieved by the recent diplomatic maneuvers is what Washington considers to be a more favorable public-relations ambience for making the war bigger, bloodier, and beastlier. A Special Supplement: Vietnam: How Not to Negotiate
We were lucky to secure a seafront apartment and our row of apartments had a peaceful and relaxing ambience.
A big pond flanks the left-hand side of the fairway and an old boat, timbers rotting in the sun, gives the hole the ambience of desolation I mentioned earlier.
Some of the stations are covered in gleaming white tiles, which lend them a certain lavatorial ambience. LOVE YOU MADLY
In the sunken seating and lounge area at the back of the bar, stained oak floorboards, recessed spotlighters and black walls create a moody, atmospheric ambience by night.
Previous emphasis on speed is now being replaced by ambience laced with moments of electronic blips and beeps, free jazz, noise, no wave and tinges of psychedelia.
Somehow, the town itself, retains its air of mystery, and mediaeval ambience, despite the cell phone shops, supermarket, and mini shopping mall opposite the car park.
Hotel du Lac Carling is quiet, with an understated ambience that washes over you as soon as you pull up beside the waterfall in front of a modern gray stone and knotty pine lodge.
The version with the E27 socket is recommended when a soft ambience is required, whereas the version with the G12 socket and metal-halogen light source is recommended for environments in which a high level of light and lower energy consumption is needed. New Lighting from Lightyears
With wall-to-wall white carpeting and ceiling-to-floor flowered curtains running along two sides of the room, the place had a homey ambience.
This is of course a fictional roadhouse set somewhere in the northern American wastes but tonight one of its namesakes holds a similar ambience.
It wasn't long before he started deejaying around town, progressively gaining recognition for his particular blend of jazz ambiences and hip-hop beats.
There was a similar ambience of paying homage to the elders in the rest of the set. Times, Sunday Times
Big, brash and full of chutzpah, this modern metropolis has a style and an ambience all of its own. Times, Sunday Times
Dub Selector is more than an ode to reggae dub music; it is an integration of dub, soul and ambience resulting in one smooth track after another.
Surely it would not take much to put a few lights along the shops or decorations in the windows to create an ambience?
In considering William Wordsworth's sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the essay investigates the virtues and vices of ambience, as opposed to a more Burkean, "maximalist" view of the natural world. Abstracts
So the ambience and atmosphere was scoring top marks so far - but let's get down to the food.
Maple trees are sensitive to sudden increases in sunlight, having grown up in the dimmed ambience of sheltering neighbor trees.
At a glance it was like any anchorage in the Solomon Islands - smiling children paddling dugouts, pristine blue water and a pervasive ambience of relaxation.
The ambience of the interior, according to Halford, is ‘very clinical, clean and pure’.
Tasteful decor, melodious songs and shafts of sunlight from the ample windows provide the perfect ambience for appreciating the subtleties and splendours of curry cuisine.
On Necker, the pace is tropical, the ambience exotic.
A smooth ride and refinement remain most important, but interior ambience is a big consideration too. Times, Sunday Times
The performances will be by candlelight lending a relaxed ambience to the evening.
The birds of Hong Kong are a delightful component of the charming ambience of this fascinating city.
If you want a taste of Goan food, music, and ambience, then Country Club on Mysore Road is the place for you.
Although the piece is indebted to lush, late - 19 th-century chromatic harmony, there's something classical about the ambience of Fauré's soundworld.
Drinks range from fine rums and whiskies to brandy, while art works and coffee table books add to an ambience of exclusive sophistication.
The ambience inside is standard Avensis, very straightforward, but the two-tone interior trim of this particular version is very refreshing from the more normal all-dark.
The ambience is already great before you get to the circuit and the track itself is just phenomenal. The Sun
Both sound and music are critical to the cinematic experience - they help set the mood, the tone, and the ambience of the level.
The colour of the room, the fragrance, the clean smell of the white sheets, what an ambience!
This ambitious and cumbersome attraction was totally out of keeping with the Niagara ambience, but Barnett persisted.
The old world charm of the former building and its ambience are something that old-timers still miss.
Their all-black uniforms complemented well the restaurant's suave and urbane ambience.
The royal ambience inside has been created by famous cloth decorators from Kolkata.
This less reverberant ambience is, of course, helpful where vocal clarity is of high importance, but the horseshoe shape results in a restricted view of the stage from many of the boxes at either side.
Rachaela put her foot on the red Persian carpet and started up, out of the scarlet ambience of the lamp.
Like Listowel, the town of Ballina had a rural ambience and this helped enormously to make people feel at home.
However, a good makeover could give the site the ambience and safety that many people clearly think it deserves.
Heartened by this ambience and my recent clean bill of health, I order an apple pie and a large Coke.
They provided background music while people ate and talked, played cards, to give you a pleasant ambience.
In this ambience the Pope, versed in classical epic, devised the programme for Michelangelo's Last Judgement, in which a warrior Christ thunderbolts the stunted damned.
Although the streetcars have a historic ambience, the operators have modern equipment at their disposal, such as radios and telephones and more contemporary fare collection equipment.
Inside, he was relieved to discover, the ambience was not quite so discouragingly spartan as outside.
The dialogue is synced correctly, but the ambience is all wrong.
With the circumambience of vast grassland, the heavenly lake is also a fairyland for yaks, sheep, horses, and other wild animals wandering around.
The resonant acoustics of the church (a Miami Beach landmark) provided the perfect ambience for Handel's music.
A cocky, selfish veteran who loves nothing but his AK-47, Sacha is at home in the cynical ambience of combat.
But the rest of the record is pretty good too, shifting wildly between bluesy rap, dancefloor ragga, punk guitar, dubbed-out ska and spacey ambience.
In the midst of all the dismal circumambience we still can have hope and can afford to smile.
Sometimes analogue, sometimes playful, they mix ambience and breakbeats more effectively than most any single-artist recordings in techno's short history.
It is suggested to adopt high-strength steel for the ear plate of the anchorage zone and to locally strengthen the circumambience of the pin hole.
Underplant beech with heucheras for romantic ambience. Times, Sunday Times
Faced with the challenge of selecting a flooring solution that created the right ambience, reclaimed maple woodblock from a timber flooring specialist provided the solution.
If the ambience was pleasant, the atmosphere good, civilisation and civility survived. SPLITTING
Inside were more third-rate landscapes, more time warp ambience: a shelfful of Depression glass; a tool and die company calendar dating from 1967, a wall menu listing steak and eggs for $1.95 and nickel coffee. Over the Edge
‘Wind is Howling’ tries too hard to elicit a haunting atmosphere with fuzzed ambience and a squealing dilruba in the background.
The tuba provides foursquare, marching-band / Dixieland resonance, the oud lends tart, percussive bite, and the bowed cello contributes some highbrow ambience.
A cocky, selfish veteran who loves nothing but his AK-47, Sacha is at home in the cynical ambience of combat.
This restaurant has a pleasant ambience.
We continually ask, ‘What kinds of experience, pedagogy, ambience, and teachers inspire students to explore and learn the specifics of living in symbiotic relationships within our bioregions?’
The house has a tectonic simplicity and an ephemeral beauty, being as light in its mass as it is in ambience.
The ambience is one of total comfort, without the reverential - and off-putting - hush that some ostensibly great restaurants seem to encourage.
The Taj appears to be taking pains in maintaining the pristine, sylvan ambience of the land, which has the Arabian Sea on one side and Vypeen and Vallarpadam islands on the other.
We can sense minute and subtle changes in the cultural ambience of rooms. Times, Sunday Times
The restaurant's ambience makes you feel you're sitting down to dinner in the dining room of an old friend.
The rather jarring songwriting style is noteworthy more for its ambience than its catchiness.
Service was reasonably snappy, if occasionally louche, the prices were very reasonable given the size of the portions and the ambience was mixed and lively.
The majority of this album is built up around similar ambiences as the trio elaborate poignant melodies and impressive arrangements, complete with guitars, strings and horns.
This restaurant has a pleasant ambience.
There was a similar ambience of paying homage to the elders in the rest of the set. Times, Sunday Times
A section of men, including small boys, have their days in the torrid heat in the city that has now worn a festoon ambience for its favourite month, ‘Chithirai’.
There is the noise of the tannoy and the enticing ambience of the outside world. This week's new exhibitions
During its functional times a lampshade which is made of semitransparent cloth covers can add some wonderful ambience in the interior space.
Inside, the decor is elegant and traditional, the gentle colour scheme creating a relaxing ambience.
It was not due to 'the pragmatic, antispeculative ambience of late capitalism', itself a dubious notion. The Times Literary Supplement
The bar is stylish, modern but surprisingly in keeping with the ambience.
Most of the album is considerably less warped, but a chilly, haunted ambience settles over the whole recording like a fine dust.
The exciting life, ambience and attraction of Russia is captured in vivid detail by Urmila, an avid shutterbug.
A friendly ambience has been created in the outlet that people can just come in and relax with a book.
The ambience is already great before you get to the circuit and the track itself is just phenomenal. The Sun
Winnetka has that small-town ambience of tree-lined streets and a one-street shopping district that you can't find in suburbia.
Around this hall the path of circumambience is also built.
The most significant among them are the ambience and the disciplined manner in which the festival is conducted.
Expect toasty ambience and cheese toasties for lunch but not much more in the way of food. Times, Sunday Times
The centre of the hall was monopolised by a white square platform confined by a circumambience of rope, which I was informed was the veritable theatre of war and cockpit. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
With wall-to-wall white carpeting and ceiling-to-floor flowered curtains running along two sides of the room, the place had a homey ambience.

How To Use Ambience In A Sentence

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