(n.) A particular rural district; a country neighborhood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
(2) The analysis of blood lead concentration revealed an evident biological response to this environmental change: there was a decrease in blood lead level between 1977 and 1987, in both the countryside (control group) and, to a lesser extent, in the city.
(3) It put on the agenda the need to upgrade the existing urban fabric, and to use the derelict and brownfield sites in our cities before encroaching on the countryside.
(4) The adduct levels in the local controls were substantially higher than those in the countryside controls.
(5) There are now 151 UK anti windfarm action groups in the UK which have been formed as a result of windfarm developments planned for local countryside areas.
(6) Of course, the great British countryside was never as twee as that – a point made forcibly by the second album from mysterious electronic collective Hacker Farm .
(7) As a precociously talented young artist, his interests didn't lie with landscape or the countryside – "though I did collect frog spawn and things like that" – but more with the advertising, posters and signwriting he saw around town.
(8) Examination of 26 separate types of cancer showed that 23 tended to be more common in towns, 1 (myeloma) to be evenly distributed, and 2 (cancers of the lip and eye) to be more common in the countryside.
(9) The use of surveillance teams and exchange of information between the city and surrounding countryside are emphasized.
(10) Tory U-turn on fracking regulations will leave safeguards totally inadequate | Lisa Nandy and Kerry McCarthy Read more “Ministers had previously conceded there should be the tougher safeguards that Labour has been calling for to protect drinking water sources and sensitive parts of our countryside like national parks,” said the Labour MP.
(11) After a week of the most intensive bombardment of the five-year war, forces loyal to the Syrian leader are in control of most of the countryside immediately to the north.
(12) "Orwell had an abiding interest in the countryside, rural life and growing his own food.
(13) Finally, at 11.30am on my third day of walking, close to Stoke Mandeville, the rarest species of all: three children, actually playing in the countryside.
(14) Millions of "educated youth" were sent to labour in the countryside.
(15) This act and the physical fact of it are what the pictures principally announce, even if the caption claims that they are impressions of the countryside around Rome and that this is what connects them to the Poussin canvas.
(16) There are two fantasies about the British countryside that were given ample play in last week's furious debates about the rights and wrongs of building there.
(17) The results suggested that STHs was possibly one of the pathogens responsible for FL in China's countryside.
(18) Sometimes in Khartoum, you see long convoys of blacked-out 4x4s, full of game hunters from the Gulf, drive through the centre of the city and disappear into the countryside, returning only to snake their way back to the airport.
(19) From the quaint market towns to the rolling countryside, this county is one of the many jewels in Great Britain’s crown,” he said.
(20) But I ended up unemployed.” He and his family arrived in the Teruel countryside thanks to the Cepaim Foundation’s New Paths programme , which helps bring immigrants to depopulated rural areas.
Seaside
Definition:
(n.) The land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea; the seashore. Also used adjectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) The streets of Libreville, the central African country’s seaside capital, were eerily quiet on Friday evening.
(2) It was a sunny Friday night by the seaside, and the atmosphere was spicy with sweat, lager and marijuana smoke.
(3) Feckless Tom Bertram is a haunter of seaside resorts.
(4) Together, these teenagers so alarmed the authorities that Brighton’s senior police officers and council chiefs held secret meetings in early 2014 to discuss the possibility of a terror attack from its residents – and the seaside city was placed on the register of areas requiring extra support under the government’s counter-extremism strategy.
(5) For all that it might suggest seaside breaks and afternoons whiled away on the pier, the Norfolk town of Great Yarmouth does not feel like a happy place.
(6) Then followed a serene procession of coaches towards a distant detention camp in north-west Turkey, as watching residents expressed relief that no refugees would be settled in their pretty seaside town.
(7) Also in August, terrorist attacks were intensified, including speedboat strafing attacks on a Cuban seaside hotel "where Soviet military technicians were known to congregate, killing a score of Russians and Cubans"; attacks on British and Cuban cargo ships; contaminating sugar shipments; and other atrocities and sabotage, mostly carried out by Cuban exile organizations permitted to operate freely in Florida.
(8) This picturebook-romantic Romanesque monastery with a handful of houses attached is tucked between the faded pinks and yellows of laid-back seaside resort Camogli and chi chi Portofino, with its superyachts and Dior boutiques selling €1,000 sandals.
(9) Photograph: Alamy With no fewer than four beaches to choose from and a quaint town centre of ice-cream coloured houses and shops, Tenby is an appealing spot for a day at the seaside.
(10) He had a seaside shack with one bedroom containing a solid silver four-poster bed.
(11) • Doubles from €72 B&B, +351 282 624 212, memmohotels.com 12 Seaside riad , Olhão Facebook Twitter Pinterest A leading (if reclusive) Portuguese architect and his family run Convento , a very sexy riad-style, nine-bedroom ex-convent house hidden in the medina of this charming, salty fishing town.
(12) A 37-year-old man has been charged with assaulting the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage , after he was allegedly hit over the head with a placard outside a seaside hotel.
(13) There’s an expectation that they will achieve now, and that’s a real mindset change.” Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools who has highlighted the plight of isolated seaside schools, was in Norfolk last week where he once again mentioned the problems of coastal deprivation, small schools and teacher recruitment and retention.
(14) The kind of total darkness that enfolds the Welsh seaside town of "Llareggub" at the opening of Dylan Thomas's wonderful mid-century "play for voices" , which interweaves the thoughts and words of upwards of 60 characters over one day, is lost to the modern world.
(15) In all cases fish or shellfish had been ingested outside the patients' homes; except for one patient, who ate living clams in the seaside of Galicia, all patients ingested them at seaside restaurants from the Barcelona province.
(16) Telling the surreal story of the lives, loves and dreams of the inhabitants of the mythical Welsh seaside town of Llareggub (read it backwards), it had first appeared in identifiable form as "Quite Early One Morning", a short story for the BBC in 1944.
(17) In the popular northern seaside resort of Blackpool, Sarah Bellamy, a nursery owner, who used to regularly commute by train to London, said: "I think it's great news.
(18) Islamic State has not claimed responsibility for the explosion in Chelsea or in Seaside Park.
(19) As a child growing up near Dagenham, the road was synonymous with day trips to the seaside or to visit family in Essex.
(20) Even a first-time visitor like me can see that it is not just seaside sparkle on offer.