Sample Sentences for
halcyon
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    This is a little exhibition we used to tour around the Continent back in the halcyon days.  (source)
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    Then too: I hoped that the escalating social roar which I'd been riding like a boat in a hurricane would slow, post-wedding, since all I really wanted was to get back to the halcyon days of summer when I'd had Kitsey all to myself: dinners alone, watching movies in bed.  (source)
    halcyon = peaceful, carefree, and idyllically happy
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    I could see those halcyon days, shiny like a new coin, glinting in sunlight.  (source)
    halcyon = carefree, and idyllically happy
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    That was the most illogical Thanksgiving he could ever remember spending, and his thoughts returned wishfully to his halcyon fourteen-day quarantine in the hospital the year before; but even that idyll had ended on a tragic note; he was still in good health when the quarantine period was over, and they told him again that he had to get out and go to war.  (source)
    halcyon = peaceful and carefree
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    I wish I could be a seabird who with halcyons skims the surf-flowers of the sea.†  (source)
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    I know I should probably hate that about interstates and yearn for the halcyon days of yore, back when you could be drenched in local color at every turn—but whatever.  (source)
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    These halcyons[471] may be looked for with a little more assurance in that pure October weather, which we distinguish by the name of Indian Summer.†  (source)
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    My sojourn in the country logically should have been the heady, halcyon happening I so warmly looked forward to.  (source)
    halcyon = peacefully happy
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    Those were the salad days, the halcyon years!  (source)
    halcyon = carefree, and idyllically happy
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    I am owed and savor the halcyon times.  (source)
    halcyon = peacefully happy
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    The halcyon days at the Tijuana track came to a spectacular end.  (source)
    halcyon = idyllically happy
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    "Theirs are the halcyon calms succeeding the storm which our argosy had so stoutly weathered," Jefferson reminded his old friend in Massachusetts.  (source)
    halcyon = calm and peaceful winds (figurative)
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    It was used for more things than family reunions, however: Negroes played basketball there, the Klan met there in its halcyon days, and a great tournament was held in Atticus's time in which the gentlemen of the county jousted for the honor of carrying their ladies into Maycomb for a great banquet.†  (source)
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