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How to use environ in a sentence

15 example sentences · adverb, verb, noun

Environ means in the neighbourhood; around. Example: “For quotations using this term, see Citations:environed.”

Examples of environ by meaning

nounA surrounding area or place (especially of an urban settlement); an environment.

  • Naples and its environs

More sentences with environ

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:environed.From the entry environed
  • Nor can Warner Bros. wrest the Hogwartsy charm from Belgian-blocked Germantown Avenue and environs.2018 October 14, Bethany Ao, “7 Days”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 190th year, number 136, page H9. From the entry Hogwartsy
  • I've seen what's happened to my home and its environs and I don't like it.1999 September 4, Icono Clast, “we just got here”, in ba.consumers (Usenet). From the entry worsification
  • Under Japanese colonial rule, Pingtung city and its environs had been famous for anti-Japanese activities.1998, Linda Chao, Ramon H. Myers, The First Chinese Democracy, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 85. From the entry Pingtung
  • Their anthills and their environs were littered with the severed heads of giant odontomachs, which even spiders fear and respect.2018 November 18, “Scientists have discovered the secret of ants who collect the ...”, in Planet Today. From the entry odontomach
  • June, who had spent most of her life living in the ravenless environs of Clapham, quite frankly had no idea.2006, Hugh Cook, The Succubus and Other Stories, page 579. From the entry ravenless
  • Galway is the heart of Trad— the city and its environs have nurtured some of the most durable names in Irish music.2010, Fodor's Ireland 2010. From the entry trad
  • Between them, Tricky's Knowle West Boy and Portishead's Third reflect both the bleakness and industrial decay of my favourite city's less salubrious environs.2008 September 22, Owen Adams, “The Bristol sound is back. So where's Mark Stewart?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry Bristol sound
  • He perennially scorns any salon environs.1993, William F. Ryan, “The Techno-Thriller”, in The Virginia Quarterly Review. From the entry technothriller
  • Perhaps it's best, then, for readers not raised in this milieu to imagine Fort Meade and its environs, if not the entire Beltway, as one enormous boom-or-bust company town.2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry boom or bust
  • Beloved characters, whom you’d spent entire seasons observing glumly wander the various arboreal environs of Georgia, could perish in a crimson shower of their most private innards.2017 April 3, Luke Holland, “When good TV goes bad: how The Walking Dead started to stink”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian…. From the entry takesies backsies
  • Lindsay again waxes approving over Ballard’s hymn to the banjaxed landscape of the Heathrow environs, with its choked arterial roads, light industrial units and warehousing entrepots.2011, Will Self, “The frowniest spot on Earth”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.9. From the entry banjaxed
  • Brunel took a site-specific approach - for example, using stone piers for many of the longer and loftier spans, but timber piles for muddier environs that called for lighter-weight structures.2025 March 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Remembering Brunel's timber viaducts”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 57. From the entry loftier
  • WOLF TREE A "wolf" tree is a tree within a woods, its size and form, large trunk and horizontal branches, anomalous to the environs of slim-trunked trees with upright branches.2007, Alison Calder, Wolf Tree, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 34. From the entry wolf tree

Meaning of environ

  1. adverb In the neighbourhood; around.
  2. adverb Almost, nearly.
  3. verb To encircle or surround (someone or something).

Full definition of environ

Questions about environ in a sentence

How do you use environ in a sentence?
Environ is used as an adverb, verb and noun. For example: “For quotations using this term, see Citations:environed.”
What is a short sentence with environ?
“Naples and its environs”
What does environ mean?
Environ means in the neighbourhood; around.

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