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.
The sun shone high in the December sky and a cold north-east wind dried the countryside after weeks of rain.
The tiny village of Clonegal nestles in a picturesque valley, deep in the lush, rolling countryside where counties Carlow, Wexford and Wicklow meet.
Countryside Agency spokesman Chris Dashper said community involvement in caring for local heritage such as fingerposts was valued, as such features could contribute to a sense of place and identity.
From the restaurant there was a marvellous prospect of/over Sienna and the countryside beyond.
DEEP in the rolling Hampshire countryside is a farm that produces cheese from a steaming herd of buffalo. The Sun
To counteract this, he has decided to send the majority of this year 's cohort into the towns and countryside. Times, Sunday Times
He seems keen on conflict, pitting the countryside against the city.
Extreme family: It lacks luxury but a break in the Welsh countryside more than makes ... school trips to activity centres, have quadded and go-karted with PGL and often throw themselves around on WN.com - Articles related to Amy heading back to Caribbean
Labour backbenchers are confident the last tally-ho will soon echo across Britain's countryside.
Over a drink he suggested doing a documentary on artisan skills of the English countryside. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
Nora tightly clutched the horse's reins as she galloped along the countryside.
Would you be negative about the area if you were surrounded by countryside like this?
Then there is the newer breed of hotel: the freshly converted castles and monasteries, most of them secreted away in superb countryside. Umbria - the green heart of Italy
The river snakes through some of the most spectacular countryside in France.
Amanda, in an orange sunsuit, had tried of chasing moths and was studying the peculiar afternoon shadow projected across the countryside by Bow Wow Mountain. Another Roadside Attraction
Normally I push the speed limit, and the countryside zips by.
The countryside had been scorched; the acacia hedges were tipped with orange.
A much longer pause ensued, and Rolloniss casually walked across to the edge of the cliff, staring at the vast, unobscured countryside.
Cycling: Hire a cycle to explore the surrounding countryside; the terrain around the lakes is fairly gentle!
It tumbles through steep gorges and follows a course through affluent Cheshire towns and countryside before its confluence with the Mersey. Times, Sunday Times
Severe drought has afflicted the countryside.
For hundreds of years they have worked the dales, the vales, the moors and rest of Yorkshire's countryside and moulded it into the scenery we admire so much today.
Yet I am undeniably attractive, stylish and able to yomp around the countryside for hours on end without needing an oxygen tent. Feeling curvy? Or just fat?
From the point of view of the countryside and farming the prospect was difficult to assess.
A farm leader called yesterday for an effective law to deal with unattended dogs roaming the countryside attacking sheep.
St. Mary's is not clustered in a village as churches often are but stands alone in the verdant countryside.
I will not have you running around the countryside without my authority.
Now we have set aside and stewardship schemes where the production of food is secondary to the look of the countryside - all very laudable. Times, Sunday Times
The vehicles that make up a cruise missile flight will emerge regularly from their base and drive around the countryside to practise.
The subject is arranged around the city/country axis - half the plays are twitchy, snippy, morally grey urban comedies, and the other half are la-la land everything-is-nice-in-the-countryside pastorals.
Its runways made a distinctive pattern, a slanting cross, as if some one had slammed a rubber stamp on the scruffy countryside.
The fabrics he used were predominantly tweeds and wools in countryside colours: moss green, rust brown and autumnal red.
The countryside of Pisa had been ravaged by aerial bombardments and artillery barrages, leaving only a wilderness of roofless houses and smoking craters.
Riding boots inspired by the traditional English countryside are must-haves for those who like a bit of equestrian chic.
I'm back after 4 days unplugged in the Virginia countryside.
Beautiful areas of countryside in Wiltshire are to be safeguarded for future generations.
For urban dwellers, the best part of treasure hunting would be larking about in countryside. Times, Sunday Times
Word has reached us that they have seized control of the countryside nearby and are intent upon putting to death those there loyal to your kingdom.
These have safeguarded the countryside and helped to secure urban renewal for more than half a century. Times, Sunday Times
A villager has criticised the rail service which runs trains to and from his rural community, claiming the transport needs of people living in the countryside are being ignored.
Oil had stimulated new industry, cities were being modernized rapidly and ambitious plans promised change in the countryside.
In the early nineties the quarry was an ugly eyesore on the local landscape with plant equipment visible for miles around and emissions of white dust across the local countryside commonplace.
Here is situated a residential and outdoor centre where young people can enjoy the countryside.
Old divisions between “city” and “countryside” have become misleading in urbanized nations like the U.S. How Should We Be Thinking About Urbanization? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
The vast majority live in sprawling towns and cities, and the countryside has been chopped up with thousands of roads.
In its sprout one of the most original new appear in the English countryside for years. Times, Sunday Times
Spring is also the time when wild flowers start to explode across the countryside, even in semi-desert areas. Times, Sunday Times
Then we began the second half the walk through countryside, stopping to marvel nervously at an enraged bull bellowing from a field. Times, Sunday Times
The countryside languishes in poor countries, in part because it is underpopulated. Cowen, Clark, and Malthus, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Lunch from the on-board snack bar (I'm not sure it's quite worthy of the term buffet) was quite a decent ham, cheese and salad sandwich for me, and sausage rolls for the kids, as we watched the countryside pass by. Diary of an Average Australian
A roadshow hits the region this week to promote new walking rights which should open up large swathes of land to ramblers and countryside enthusiasts.
Viticulture flourished despite the frequent civil wars, which were on too small a scale to devastate the Tuscan countryside.
The problems are the enormous cost and the damage to the countryside from the new route. Times, Sunday Times
Set in the Yorkshire countryside, two seemingly unalike young women discover one summer that they have more in common than they thought.
The Provencal countryside provided the inspiration for many artists.
The fog lay thick and cold over the countryside that morning, and inside the barracks it was pitch-black and silent, except for the deep, steady breathing of the gunners.
Much of the countryside remains under the control of the Afghan warlords who use heroin money to maintain their irregular armies of up to 10,000 each.
The countryside was a gentle patchwork of fields and hedgerows, still green from the rains three months before. Times, Sunday Times
Park House does not fit the usual image of a small whitewashed building set in rolling countryside. Times, Sunday Times
The outlines are clearly visible about three feet below the earth in what is now open countryside. Times, Sunday Times
Every summer thousands of people flock to the countryside.
They say that modern mining methods could wreak lasting damage on the countryside. Times, Sunday Times
Coming as it did from cowsheds in London and from the surrounding countryside; it “proved," in the eyes of Charles Dickens Jr, "often the source of, or rather, perhaps, the means of spreading, serious epidemics of typhoid, diphtheria, and scarlatina.” Archive 2007-12-01
The failure to bring broadband to the countryside has been an embarrassment for the government. Times, Sunday Times
More than 1,200 of them including farmers, gamekeepers and riders in hunting pink warned that their action was the start of a ‘summer of discontent’ to highlight opposition in the countryside to the threatened ban.
She was as alien as a far-journeyer from some other star, and no hint could she nor all the countryside give me of what forms of living, what heats of feeling, or rules of philosophic contemplation actuated her in all that she had been and was. SAMUEL
Who can possibly consider that they have the right to desecrate our countryside in such a way?
Anyone with an interest in the countryside has a role to play in eradicating the disease: from the livestock farmer to the rambler and mountain biker.
The countryside around here is very rugged.
The Countryside Party could bring a breath of fresh, country air into the stuffy world of British politics.
One surprise is that pollen counts are increasing more in urban areas than in the countryside. Times, Sunday Times
One focus within the countryside lobby was the agitation for a green belt around London.
It would succeed in destroying the very essence of what this village is about, its rich countryside heritage.
The pheasant is a beautiful bird and though not native still has adapted very well to living in the Irish countryside.
The Inn River meanders through the countryside like an unbroken silver thread.
Contradiction frequently breeds creativity, and the Deng model has launched a massive program to erase the bipolarity between city and countryside.
how he had grown weary for his native countryside, for the smithy: weary of living always so far away from them all, and of the disciplinemuch harsher of lateas well as of his comrades, who called him Prussian because of his Alsatian accent. The Bad Zouave
The only place to remove them to humanely is the countryside. Archive 2007-10-28
Such immersion in the language and ways of the Andalusian countryside profoundly influenced his sensibility.
She covered the distance in 71 hours, cycling through countryside and mountains almost non-stop.
Even got knighted for his efforts, retired to the English countryside. OFF THE CHART
The Countryside Lover is quite correct about reporting the dumping of fridges and freezers.
I have determined on [ upon ] going to the countryside after graduation.
It was possible to climb inside this tubular steel mast to the top, and take in the view of the surrounding countryside and the sea. SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution
We will tighten controls against exploitation, we will create more National Parks and we will improve access to the countryside.
South our meander county also countryside is advance northwest a typical impoverished villages and towns.
The UK countryside is unable to bear this intense industrial activity. Times, Sunday Times
In the countryside I know no-one whomsoever who has not lost an animal.
But why, I asked, would soldiers maraud the countryside on a murder-and-kidnapping spree? The Fall of Mexico
Roads can not only ruin the countryside, but also divide communities.
They settled down in the countryside to steel their wills.
The road from here to Adelaide runs/goes through some beautiful countryside.
Countryside dwellers are planning direct action protests should a North Yorkshire landfill site be used to bury foot and mouth culled cattle.
The gameplay involves a lot of tally-hoing across the countryside in search of treasure, monsters, and all manner of mayhem.
This is the launch of the government's latest attempt to conserve the endangered countryside.
In 1992 when I was born, the ratio of male to female babies was 5 to 1 in the countryside.
Countryside robbers are learning the ways of the wild west by stampeding cattle to distract farmers before raiding their homes.
The road turned again and rose up onto a knoll cast deep in shade, a place even farther removed from countryside and daylight than the rest of the woods.
Some look out over jagged urban skyscapes, while others survey open green countryside.
Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Politics and the English Language
That will come as a relief to Giffard, who is as passionate about the rule of law as he is a supporter of countryside sports.
The late Robert Brentano examines the interaction of the countryside and the city in terms of the mendicant friars who lived in and moved between both worlds.
The countryside is a shambles, full of cut-throats and wild animals.
The train opened up the countryside as a place of popular leisure. Times, Sunday Times
Much of the region's verdant countryside has been destroyed in the hurricane.
The countryside has changed little since Franciscan friars established the first of 22 missions in the area at the turn of the 18th century, and the native grapes were harvested for drinking at mass held by San Gabriel padres.
The problems are the enormous cost and the damage to the countryside from the new route. Times, Sunday Times
It is made abundantly clear to campesinos out in the countryside that to grow coca is against the law.
There are few jobs for the peasants who have flooded into the cities from the poverty-stricken countryside in search of work.
But the countryside is now full of millionaires prepared to manage woods to encourage biodiversity for no charge, without a cost to taxpayers. Times, Sunday Times
Imagine thousands of tourists swarming over the countryside along the southern rim of the Ocala National Forest.
Suddenly I was seized with a paroxysm of hot tears as I glanced over the pristine countryside of the San Louis Obispo area through which we were driving on the way to the hospital.
All of the rooms have breathtaking views over the Borders countryside where hiking, hillwalking and horseriding are all available.
The team tours the countryside, organising digs and disinterments and, as they try to find the dead sons of forgotten families, they wonder at the sense and scale of their task.
For hundreds of years they have worked the dales, the vales, the moors and rest of Yorkshire's countryside and moulded it into the scenery we admire so much today.
Estelle was led to a quiet room overlooking the expansive green countryside all abloom with spring color and new life.
As bombing raids attacking Britain's cities increased during World War Two, thousands of children were uprooted from their families and sent to the safety of the countryside.
At the time, he was a fashion buyer with no mountaineering experience - apart from a trip to some rocky Welsh countryside.
We had set out reluctantly on a Friday evening at the end of a hard working week through a wintry countryside glittering with frost and wreathed in freezing mist.
The adverse publicity has caused tourists to stay away in droves from the countryside and towns.
As the train trundled through the English countryside my gaze kept flicking back to the woman with the wild green eyes and golden hair. Sarfraz Manzoor: My family said they would boycott my wedding
From the top, wonderful views can be had of the surrounding countryside.
Is it any wonder that we now have to lock up churches after morning Masses, even in the quiet rural countryside.
They say that modern mining methods could wreak lasting damage on the countryside. Times, Sunday Times
This great annual event, now in its 177th year, really and truly surpassed itself with a display of all that is good in the countryside.
Villagers are proud and fortunate to be living here in this peaceful little village, surrounded by beautiful countryside.
Countryside robbers are learning the ways of the wild west by stampeding cattle to distract farmers before raiding their homes.
looked up at the castle dominating the countryside
In the quiet countryside there are rhythms of drums beating for all to hear.
Mozart's music may be the harmonious equivalent to countryside palaces or grand neoclassical academies.
Our goal is to bring empty buildings back into productive use, whilst protecting the openness of the countryside and our National Parks.
Each consisted of a single walled town surrounded by countryside, which might include villages.
Countryside traditions which had remained unaltered for centuries changed and have continued to do so, with many of the old ways of life lost forever.
Hidden away in the English countryside, these simple shelters, made of coppiced hazel and willow covered in army-surplus canvas and other easily sourced natural materials, are part of a fine tradition of independent and ecologically savvy homemaking. Junkitecture and the Jellyfish theatre
There's a terrace offering breathtaking views of the surrounding countryside, and the garage has decking on the roof. Times, Sunday Times
Her family began to scour the countryside for a suitable house.
They were just great camping trips in beautiful Yorkshire countryside, waking up to the bleating of sheep and doves cooing. Times, Sunday Times
The surrounding countryside is quite dramatic with the legacy of the vast lead mining industry still evident.
Everyday features of the countryside from sheepfolds to packhorse bridges carry all kinds of fascinating clues about how man's activities have shaped the Lake District landscape.
Underlying the entire edifice was the myth of industrialization schemes based on "savings" from the countryside. The Origins of Economic Inequality between Nations: A critique of Western theories on development and underdevelopment
I sat in the front of the bus to get a good view of the countryside.
The awards scheme, launched last year, aims to demonstrate how game shooting and conservation work for a better countryside.
The major selling point was that it backed on to swathes of open countryside. FRIENDS FOR LIFE
The people who are dumping waste on the roadsides are blighting the countryside and destroying the good image that the vast majority of people try to promote.
This is what I love about living in the UK, when you're quietly coasting through a perfect spring morning in this beautiful rolling countryside!
In the poverty-stricken countryside, the situation is only going to deteriorate after WTO entry triggers imports of cheap foreign grain.
As I've already noted, at the lowest levels what we see is a slow but steady change from a countryside populated by slaves to one populated by peasants and serfs.
While the teens spend a lost weekend in the countryside, the director makes lazy points about the follies of youth.
She also was able to see some beautiful countryside. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
the countryside rolled greenly down into the valley
I've always loved the English countryside.
Much of the countryside in East Anglia is very flat.
Country concerns: Trimdon children are making a joint effort to improve wildlife in the countryside around their schools.
In the past three decades 500 million people have moved from the countryside into towns, the biggest such migration in human history. Times, Sunday Times
Dimanche dernier = last Sunday gâteau de marron = chestnut cake campagne = countryside Façonner - French Word-A-Day
However, new research finds provision by housing associations is patchy and that jobs are even more important in determining whether young people abandon the countryside.
In one of the Metro stations in the city of Prague, called Praha by a nation fond of open-ended gutturals, there's a Bus Information Booth where you can buy tickets to interesting destinations in the Czech countryside. Crosscut
They do not perceive the countryside to be cool and regard angling as exclusive and expensive.
Six have their own sitting rooms and all have access to a private garden and unspoiled views of the countryside.
Several parts of the countryside are controlled by ‘revolutionary’ regional strongmen and their cutthroat armies.
The countryside was dominated by giant estates or latifundia.
Buyers looking for holiday homes in the countryside will have to do a little more legwork. Times, Sunday Times
The countryside abounds in wild life of every kind.
The former leader of Scotland's lairds is selling about 500 acres of his Brucklay Estate in countryside west of Peterhead, along with 10 tenant houses, farmland, a lake and the ruins of a castle.
Mr Abbott said he would table a motion at the September council meeting opposing any route which would run across open countryside.
Toxic chemicals may have been dumped in the nearby countryside. Times, Sunday Times
When everything turns green, the countryside presents a truly beautiful aspect.
And then I wander about the dread nocturnal countryside of this inhuman season.
He still carries vivid memories of the bloodshed and terror of fighting in the cornfields of the French countryside - and the jubilation of his dispatch while lying in a hospital bed after being wounded.
We will tighten controls against exploitation, we will create more National Parks and we will improve access to the countryside.
They should be in their wellies, walking footpaths, visiting rural attractions and declaring the countryside open for business.
Petroplus plans to meet with statutory consultees, like the county council, and Countryside Council for Wales, early in the new year about a possible ‘scoping’ document for a full-blown power station.
They were in his pickup truck, and the undulating countryside was speeding by rapidly, the chalklike hills layered with sedimentary rock where the highway cut through them, the sun a dust-veiled orange wafer by late afternoon. Rain Gods
For centuries, control this fort and you could command the countryside for miles around.
Expansion of the exhibition space on the showground is necessary to meet increased demand from events like Countryside Live, being held for the third time on October 29 and 30.
When the skies open up over the desert, watercourses alter, rivers gouge out deep channels and tracks, roads break up, trees are uprooted and our dramatic countryside changes yet again.
When I was at school, we went rambling in the Kent countryside as part of our activities week, something we did before we broke up for our summer holidays.
But that fact hides dramatic income inequality: while wealthy citizens live luxuriously in sequestered Guatemala City neighborhoods, the poor are barely noticed, living like feudal peasants in the countryside. Hungry in Guatemala
This harmony between properties provides an uninterrupted period setting that is quintessential of the British countryside. Times, Sunday Times
Foxes may need controlling but surely there are better ways to deal with it than chasing them through the countryside until they collapse with fatigue only to be disembowelled by the closely following pack of dogs.
Beautiful countryside (like Canada in miniature), but those roads and the rail/car bridges gave me the willies!
Trains enable tourists to sit back, relax and enjoy a smorgasbord of spectacular vistas of Taiwan's lush, verdant countryside, breathtaking mountains and tranquil coastlines.
The epidemic depopulated the countryside
A man with a great fondness for the outdoor life, he loved to ramble in the countryside and experience the peace and quiet of the land.
And so he kept on the move, criss-crossing a large region of gently rolling Cheshire countryside.
Lanning refuses to elaborate about the horrors he must have seen, but instead recounts the beauty he found in Paris and the bucolic countryside seen on his march to Germany.
A lot of the surrounding countryside has been classified as National Park, and is great amenity to have on the doorstep.
But many annona systems became fiendishly complex as the different political factions within the city wrestled over the power to distribute food: there were depots and distribution centers, inspectorates and tribunals; there were grain quotas and regulations on the precise size of a loaf of bread; in some places, storing corn in the countryside was banned. Delizia!
A shift in emphasis back to the rural areas was manifested by what might be termed an urbanization of the countryside.
The thought of thousands of tonnes of radioactive waste being buried under their favourite stretch of countryside filled local residents with horror.

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