How to Use countryside in a Sentence

countryside

noun
Definition of countrysidenext
Synonyms for countrysidenext
  • We took a long drive through the open countryside.
  • The two live in the countryside with their three children.
    — Town & Country, 8 Aug. 2023
  • For this, the British have long had a secret: the English countryside.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And, oh, the wonderful food in Marseille and Paris and a countryside restaurant in the Dordogne.
    — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2023
  • They're made from faux silk for a lifelike finish that looks like they were just picked from the french countryside.
    — Mackenzie Dunn, countryliving.com, 6 Apr. 2023
  • That policy was not as strictly applied in the countryside as for the workers in the city.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
  • But instead of just touring it, guests can stay overnight in this countryside haven.
    — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Even those in the countryside see moving to the city, or better yet moving abroad, as the fastest way out of poverty, said Trung Hieu, 23.
    — Aniruddha Ghosal, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Some Parisian crows were spotted as far away as the Dutch countryside, but most formed new flocks in the city’s green spaces, where there was garbage to eat.
    — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2024
  • What’s the difference between the French countryside and that of Yolo County?
    — Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The blare of sirens could be heard in the distance, as ambulances raced up the main road toward villages deeper in the countryside.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Frontenac hotel in Quebec City, while the third is a solid mystery, but a warmer one, set in the countryside in spring.
    — Andrea Duncan-Mao, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Afghanistan’s best hope might be these women, living in the sun-blanched mud villages of the countryside, learning to beat the Taliban at their own game.
    — Ross McDonnell, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2023
  • After getting their rental car stuck in a countryside ditch, things begin to go awry.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
  • It was led not by the nationalist elite in Jerusalem but by the fellahin, the farmers, in the countryside, who were the ones suffering from loss of land.
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Located outside of Phoenix in the countryside, the school property was bordered on the south by the Salt River, on the north by the airport, on the west by 24th Street, and the east by a farm.
    — Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
  • In a recent video posted on Instagram, the 44-year-old is out in what appears to be the countryside in Rwanda.
    — Essence, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Inside the high-walled Kaershovedgaard center, deep in the Danish countryside, that is a chilling thought.
    — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
  • During the summers, the family would retreat to a house in the Tuscan countryside and make trips to see the works of the Florentine masters.
    — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Constructed in 2006, the home is located in the countryside near Bucyrus, Kansas.
    — Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Many of its slides are built into the location’s hilly countryside, offering a unique kind of thrill.
    — Carly Caramanna, Chron, 11 May 2023
  • At first glance, North Devon, an expanse of rolling hills and gentle seaside cliffs deep in the English countryside, may not seem like a place to find the future.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Nov. 2023

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