How to Use countryside in a Sentence

countryside

noun
  • We took a long drive through the open countryside.
  • Thy will be done in Port-au-Prince and in the countryside.
    Marlene L. Daut, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The two live in the countryside with their three children.
    Town & Country, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Pack this one for your next trip to the French countryside.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Sitting on the deck looking out at the countryside, the pond, and listening to the sounds of the wildlife.
    Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 6 May 2022
  • Season 3 will see the show move out of the big city of Rio de Janeiro and into the countryside.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Women in the rice fields in the countryside of Hanoi, Vietnam.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
  • For this, the British have long had a secret: the English countryside.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Mourners lined the streets in the countryside to get a glimpse at the procession.
    Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Across the countryside, the effect of permafrost is plain to see.
    Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Not all pubs are in the middle of the countryside with roaring fires.
    Rebecca Rose, Travel + Leisure, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Any basic doctor can do it both in the city and the countryside.
    Fox News Staff, Fox News, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Ground forces advanced across the countryside and pressed in on three sides.
    Jeffrey Gettleman, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The colors of our sunset in the countryside, mix of browns with yellows, red suns, and the greens of the trees with pure blue sky.
    Vogue, 28 July 2023
  • 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
  • Bourgeois is a French word for a person from a town in the countryside.
    Benjamin Nugent, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The city bustled with more people who had moved in from the countryside.
    Raheem Hosseini, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The episode then cuts to a home, called Ipatiev House, deep within the Russian countryside.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Guardiola filled up with diesel and took a spin in the countryside.
    Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • 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
  • The pair raised their three children in the French countryside, in Normandy and near Bordeaux, and in Berlin.
    Laura Cappelle, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Some people had been in the countryside in England or in LA walking in the hills.
    Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 13 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • They were plucked out of the water by a Polish man, and survived the war by hiding in the countryside.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Launching in June 2024, the new overnight journey will trail through the French countryside and along the coastline of the Mediterranean.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Their greatest friend turned out to be the laboring poor of the countryside.
    James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • At the time, Xi was sent to work in the countryside like millions of other Chinese youth.
    Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2022
  • From the pros and cons of living on the ranch to takes on living in the countryside, here's all there is to know before binging the show.
    Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 July 2025
  • The news has generated an exciting buzz in the French capital, which famously empties at the height of summer as residents flee to the countryside and the coast to escape the heat.
    Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2025

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