Example sentences for: surroundings

How can you use “surroundings” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I grew sullen and ashamed of my surroundings.

  • One rares back and uses this phrase when one finds himself in surroundings of unaccustomed elegance, such as sipping an aperitif in an elegant restaurant with a bevy of tuxedoed waiters dancing attendance.

  • The village (3 km/2 miles east) is very much a tourist-trap, but the lake (named after a daughter of Queen Victoria) and its surroundings retain their magic.

  • Both of these are situated in pleasant surroundings with plenty of open-air cafés, bookstores, and restaurants.

  • I was also lucky to see Batman Forever in more pleasant surroundings than the New Times Square--in a high-modern movie palace in Helsinki, with an audience of hip Finns who giggled at subtitles that seemed to go their own way from the script.


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