How to Use sylvan in a Sentence

sylvan

1 of 2 noun

• Start off with the surroundings, like a nightstand made of natural wood and cracks in all the right places, as if it were plucked from a sylvan landscape.
  — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 9 Mar. 2026
• Sash windows provide ample light and sylvan views, while French doors swing open to a heated sunroom overlooking the backyard.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2023
• The long driveway winds through a sylvan setting, transporting you to a rarefied residence with a strong sense of legacy and permanence.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 18 Feb. 2026
• Its august and influential members frolic each year in the sylvan Bohemian Grove.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• Recent controversy aside, a missile can hardly be considered a sylvan shallot without also being a soybean.
  — Jay Pilgreen, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
• This is Washington Irving country (the town of Sleepy Hollow is 10 miles south), with its glittering streams, ancient trees, and sylvan meadows.
  — Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2024
• The sylvan terrace of the condo in New York's NoMad neighborhood is planted with birch and apple trees, wild grasses, and bee-friendly passionflower.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2025

sylvan

2 of 2 adjective

• European cities tend to be less sylvan and the trees more manicured.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 17 July 2019
• The sylvan acreage around the Connecticut house was a precious refuge for the girls.
  — Alexandra Styron, Town & Country, 31 Dec. 2012
• What the scientists were talking about in their sylvan hideaway was how to build a machine that could think.
  — Jules Julien, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2018
• These ceaseless sylvan stand-offs rarely involve trees as storied as those at Fairy Creek.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2021
• Debased with posters and signs, the posts nonetheless retain something of their sylvan essence.
  — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2021
• There is darkness in this story — which is, on the whole, a happy, sylvan version of the pandemic.
  — Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• By morning, like a sylvan Cinderella, its white petals wilt before the sun ever gets a shot at a kiss.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2017
• His wide-eyed encounter with an old mole who pops up just to pass the time of day is typical of a fawnhood full of sylvan surprises.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 1 Jan. 1950
• Winding sylvan trails in the small reserves allow birders to approach these normally elusive birds up close.
  — Bruce M. Beehler, Smithsonian, 16 Apr. 2018
• Porsches and Teslas share its sylvan, serpentine roads with high-end racing bicycles.
  — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2021
• One woman does yoga in a sylvan breezeway; another plays the drums in a spacious studio with branches lapping at the windows.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2022
• No sooner has Isabel arrived at the ceremony, which takes place on a sylvan estate, than her past rises up to engulf her.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2019
• Each property contains about 30 to 50 structures on double-digit acres of sylvan land.
  — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2020
• This was New Canaan, a sylvan place of old-money mansions and modern farmhouses built with Wall Street bonuses.
  — Sarah Schweitzer, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2019
• Latrobe’s dream of a sylvan Athens, a city defined as much by its art and culture as its tumultuous politics, is made real in several of these paintings.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2019
• Time has seen tree roots overtake the stonework, and the resulting sylvan maze is equal parts post-apocalyptic fantasy and a sobering reminder of our humanity.
  — Cynthia Drescher, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Apr. 2018
• There is a wild creativity and feral quality to how the children, willing collaborators in this sylvan fairy tale, present themselves.
  — Robert Frank, National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2020
• In her early adulthood, Pelton painted nostalgic scenes of Grecian maidens in sylvan glades, two of which appeared in the seminal .
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2020
• Steel and concrete fade into sylvan trails that wind past lakes and waterfalls, all of it not too far from the cavernous and efficient airport, part of a renowned transport network of subways, buses, trams and ferries.
  — Keith Bradsher, The Seattle Times, 29 June 2017
• The park is not an outdoor destination now but a shell of its former — and, hopefully, future — self that looks nothing like billboards posted at the site picturing a sylvan wonderland.
  — Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2020
• There’s a sense of gentle motion in the sylvan landscapes now at Multiple Exposures Gallery, as if they’ve been shot through rain or are partly cloaked by swaying vines.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 19 July 2019
• Steel and concrete fade into sylvan trails that wind past lakes and waterfalls, all of it not too far from the city’s cavernous and efficient airport, part of a renowned transport network of subways, buses, trams and ferries.
  — Keith Bradsher Photographs By Lam Yik Fei, New York Times, 29 June 2017
• Ratcliffe, 44, is an accountant from the sylvan London neighborhood of West Hampstead.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 23 June 2019
• Amid the sylvan tranquility of the Berkeley hills neighborhood, an image of a snarling predator, fangs bared, stares down at passersby from atop a pole planted in the yard of a sprawling Tudor-style home.
  — Todd Woody, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2021
• The Long Beach Shakespeare Company returns to in-person performance with this sylvan fantasy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2021
• Scientists are also designing proteins with amino acid compositions similar to those in feed made of fish but created from sawdust and other forest residue plentiful in the sylvan state of Maine.
  — Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
• The trees line up smartly in front of a condo and commercial complex that once was a railroad freight storage facility, providing shade and a welcome sylvan note along a busy thoroughfare near Union Depot.
  — Pioneer Press Editorial Board, Twin Cities, 15 June 2017
• In October, these gorges are typically packed with the yellow leaves of soaring sugar maples that light up like the sun — a striking contrast to the Virginia creeper that adds splashes of blood red to the sylvan surroundings.
  — Lori Rackl, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• Thankfully, a pig’s-blood pancake was heavy enough not to merit an additional bloodbath, but a birch-wood ice cream took its sylvan motif to extremes, studded with mushrooms that were variously candied, dehydrated, or meringued.
  — Daniel Wenger, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• Patrons of the Eunice Bonner Senior Center can now add long strolls through a sylvan setting to their itineraries of lunches, art classes, yoga, and socializing.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2022