countryside

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[ US /ˈkəntɹiˌsaɪd/ ]
[ UK /kˈʌntɹɪsˌa‍ɪd/ ]
NOUN
  1. rural regions
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How To Use countryside In A Sentence

  • The interiors are beautifully kept and the countryside is lush and fruitful. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are drifts of feverfew, clouds of philadelphus, grasses whispering in the breeze, and everywhere the perfume of 1,000 blossoms keeping the countryside alive in the heart of London.
  • The "fruitily perfumed pineapple weed" that came to Britain from Oregon in the late 19th century and then began to spread throughout the countryside, Mr. Mabey says, "exactly tracked the adoption of the treaded motor tyre, to which its ribbed seeds clung" as if the treads were the soles of climbing boots. Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling
  • Nature notes Autumn colours are now becoming more noticeable, though large swathes of the countryside are still quite green. Times, Sunday Times
  • A simple drive through the countryside, past sheep ranch after sheep ranch, is balm for a weary soul.
  • They grew up within walking distance of the countryside and spent much of their time either rambling or in the local bookshop. Times, Sunday Times
  • Similarly Wang missed the gang era of the late 1970s and early 1980s when those children whose parents had been sent deep into the countryside for re-education formed their own cadres of street toughs.
  • Instead, they depicted the lonely troops in real time, trudging to the next trench in the torn up countryside of an unfamiliar country. Smithsonian Mag
  • Huge towers grew into the sky, as the countryside gradually encroached on the city outskirts.
  • In the countryside, on the contrary, more hands were needed to work the fields in grain-growing regions, and males contracted marriages at younger ages to increase the rural labour supply.
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