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How to use scenery in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Scenery means view, natural features, landscape. Example: “She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.”

More sentences with scenery

  • She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.From the entry she
  • I'm just going to sit on a bench and take in the scenery.From the entry take in
  • I looked about at the scenery that surrounded me.From the entry about
  • The countryside was filled with charming, bucolic scenery, complete with rolling hills, fields of wildflowers, and quaint farmhouses.From the entry bucolic
  • Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking.From the entry property
  • The minimalist play used no upstage scenery.From the entry upstage
  • He went to the Grand Canyon and spent a week taking in the breathtaking scenery all around him.From the entry breathtaking
  • It's only a matter of time before some highfalutin developer builds a huge hotel and ruins the scenery.From the entry highfalutin
  • I've been stuck in this house for too long. I could use a change of scenery. Maybe I'll go to the beach.From the entry change of scenery
  • It was also very scenic, and we all love to enjoy our scenery from a train window.2021 July 14, Pip Dunn, “Woodhead 40 years on: time to let go”, in RAIL, number 935, page 38. From the entry hoo-hah
  • It's a change of scenery, at least." He picked up a ground apple.2018, Jessica Marting, Haven. From the entry groundapple
  • Both are remote and sparsely inhabited, but there's some pretty scenery.2017 May, Piera Chen, Dinah Gardner, “Taiwan's Islands”, in Lonely Planet Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 10th edition (Travel), Lonely Planet…. From the entry southerly
  • Enjoy scenery of the Red Blood Valley of Jin Sha River along the way.2002 April 26, Li Dan, “Yunnan Offers Beauty, Mystery”, in Beijing Today, number 50, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 3. From the entry Jin Sha
  • The mountain scenery and the small wooden homes make this an attractive area.2002, Claire Sermier, “Northern Aimags”, in Helen Loveday, transl., Mongolia: Empire of the Steppes, Airphoto International Ltd., →ISBN…. From the entry Züünkharaa
  • Normally, the casino shills are gorgeous women, and sometimes men, so enjoy the scenery.2000, Dennis R. Harrison, Casino Gambling: Your Absolute, Quintessential, All You Wanted to Know .... From the entry shill
  • Both male and female barbegazi wear white fur garments which help them blend into the snowy scenery.1996, D. J. Conway, Magickal, Mythical, Mystical Beasts, Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, page 199. From the entry barbegazi
  • Few members of a viewing audience are critical of a production's scenery.1993, Darwin Reid Payne, Scenographic Imagination, Southern Illinois University Press - Carbondale and Edwardsville, page 51. From the entry sumptiously
  • The way the six stars chew the scenery is nothing compared to their abuse of one another.1989 November 27, David Denby, “A Farewell to Arms [review of Steel Magnolias]”, in New York Magazine. From the entry chew the scenery
  • The general scenery is spellbinding, both underfoot as well as to the sides.1965, The New Yorker (volume 41, part 3, page 49). From the entry nemophilous
  • At Sebago we hauled in Perch and whole soulfuls of lovely scenery.1958 September, Edwin D. Merry, “Float plane trolling”, in Flying Magazine, volume 63, number 3, page 35. From the entry soulful
  • The scenery is enchanting, with Olympus on the right, and the Gulf of Salonica on the left.1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731. From the entry Gulf of Salonica
  • And he admits the use of “coulisse” in connection with sliding scenery.1947 April, H.M.C., “Correspondence—More about Battens”, in Tabs, volume 5, number 1, […] The Strand Electric and Engineering Co. Ltd.…. From the entry portscullis
  • But for Raeesa Sheikh, RN, MSN, the digital tools of the modern age, while essential, are merely the scenery.2026 May 6, Kevin Famuyiro, Alan LaGuardia, “The Reality Of Being A Nurse In 2026: ‘Every Day Feels Like A Win’”, in Los Angeles Times…. From the entry MSN
  • They’re killing the beauty of our scenery.”2025 August 3, Adam Gabbatt, quoting Donald Trump, “‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on…. From the entry windmill
  • Its geography is both a blessing and a headache: the scenery is glorious, but the line speed (at times) infuriatingly slow.2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The tid is turning for a Victorian wonder”, in Rail, page 52. From the entry infuriatingly
  • These will prove popular on the long journeys, as they offer a fine view of the stunning Scottish scenery.2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in RAIL, page 52. From the entry airline seat
  • Come here for some peace and quiet and a change of scenery from the dusty Uighur towns along the Silk Road.2012, Simon Foster, Candice Lee, Jen Lin-Liu, Beth Reiber, Tini Tran, Lee Wing-sze, Christopher D. Winnan, Frommer's China (Frommer's)…. From the entry Tashkurgan
  • Nyingchi, east of Lhasa, is an ideal place to start the journey because of its lower elevation and pleasant scenery.2011 August 26, Dongya Zhang, “Tibet season”, in Beijing Today, →OCLC, page 20. From the entry Nyingchi
  • Amid the scenery, the manjack tree grew quite low.2008, Taiwan Literature, English Translation Series - Issues 22-23, page 88. From the entry manjack
  • All with Lake Tahoe, or the Truckee River, or the majestic scenery of the Sierras in the background.2004, Don Lane, Tahoe Tales of Bygone Days and Memorable Pioneers, Xlibris, →ISBN, pages 65 and 236. From the entry lovestory
  • The scenery reminded him of Robert Greene's paintings.2001 July 15, “BOOKSHELF/FICTION AND POETRY; Gangster Trading Cards and Tours of Terrorist Sites”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry veridian
  • The scenery is even better than in Santimen.1998, Robert Storey, “South-West Taiwan”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 4th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 274, column 2. From the entry Liukuei
  • The point overlooking the sea has beautiful scenery.1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System. From the entry choke up
  • Tony Randall plays Baker Street’s best while Sid Caesar chews up the scenery as the first of fangdom.1986 October, “Fantasy Film Marquee”, in Monster Land, number 13, page 5. From the entry fangdom
  • YINGKO – This small township in the southwest of Taipei county is not known for its beautiful scenery or historic relics.1983 February 5, “Yingko -- Taiwan's ceramics capital”, in Arab News, volume VIII, number 69, Saudi Arabia, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 4. From the entry exquisite
  • After a two-day boat trip through the most beautiful scenery in all China, I finally reached Wuchou on the West River.1979, Te-kong Tong, Li Tsung-jen, “A Young Officer in the National Protection Army”, in The Memoirs of Li Tsung-jen (Studies of the East…. From the entry Wuchou
  • Kuei-lin had been famous for more than a thousand years for its unusual natural scenery of hills and water.1977, Yee Chiang, China Revisited, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 150. From the entry T'ang
  • For Tao-chi, the ultimate mountain scenery was always represented by the incomparable peaks of Huang-shan, the Yellow Mountain, in Anhwei.1976, Wen Fong, “On the Mountain Peak”, in Returning Home: Tao-chi's Album of Landscapes and Flowers, New York: George Braziller, →ISBN…. From the entry Huang-shan
  • As another popular saying has it: “Even more beautiful than the scenery of Kweilin is that of Yangshuo.”1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 201. From the entry Yangshuo
  • The road from Kashgar to Maral Bashi, Stag's Head, follows the plain, but the scenery is very varied.1935, P. S. Nazaroff, “Moved On!”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), London: George Allen & Unwin, page 105. From the entry Faizabad

Meaning of scenery

  1. noun View, natural features, landscape.
  2. noun Stage backdrops, property and other items on a stage that give the impression of the location of the scene.

Full definition of scenery

Questions about scenery in a sentence

How do you use scenery in a sentence?
Scenery is used as a noun. For example: “She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.”
What is a short sentence with scenery?
“The minimalist play used no upstage scenery.”
What does scenery mean?
Scenery means view, natural features, landscape.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scenery (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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