ENVIRONS in a Sentence

Learn ENVIRONS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
145 example sentences for ENVIRONS, such as:
1. We can't overbuild a natural environment area.
2. The care of the environment is of prime importance.
3. They were sure of themselves and of their environment.
4. An unhappy home environment can affect a child's behaviour.
5. A bad home environment can affect a child's healthy growth.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ENVIRONS
environs
 n.  the area in which something exists or lives
 n.  an outer adjacent area of any place
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  These encounters with strange children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of the environs of Paris.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS
2  The remainder of the troops were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the environs of Paris.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
3  Besides, it came into the young man's mind that by remaining in the environs of the spot on which this sad event had passed, he would, perhaps, have some light thrown upon the mysterious affair.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 24 THE PAVILION
4  But my toils now drew near a close, and in two months from this time I reached the environs of Geneva.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
5  We passed a considerable period at Oxford, rambling among its environs and endeavouring to identify every spot which might relate to the most animating epoch of English history.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
6  When last seen, the environs of the works were filled with violence and uproar.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
7  They were in the environs of Mansfield long before the usual dinner-time, and as they approached the beloved place, the hearts of both sisters sank a little.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
8  "Since Prince Bagration is not coming, we may begin," said Weyrother, hurriedly rising from his seat and going up to the table on which an enormous map of the environs of Brunn was spread out.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII
9  They were sure of themselves and of their environment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  But Mr. Rosedale wanted, in the long run, a more individual environment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
11  He had meant to keep free from permanent ties, not from any poverty of feeling, but because, in a different way, he was, as much as Lily, the victim of his environment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
12  Moral complications existed for her only in the environment that had produced them; she did not mean to slight or ignore them, but they lost their reality when they changed their background.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
13  The environment in which Lily found herself was as strange to her as its inhabitants.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
14  That she was seeing with different eyes and making the acquaintance of new conditions in herself that colored and changed her environment, she did not yet suspect.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIV
15  It was utterly useless to caution them and plead with them; quite without knowing it, they were taking on the tone of their new environment.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
Example Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
1  I mounted the vehicle which was to bear me to new duties and a new life in the unknown environs of Millcote.
2  An unhappy home environment can affect a child's behaviour.
3  A bad home environment can affect a child's healthy growth.
4  They recommended the creation of a new government agency to be responsible for the environment.
5  A dangerous amount of radioactivity was released into the environment last month.
6  The law requires a detailed analysis of the potential impact on the environment of a proposed project.
7  We can't overbuild a natural environment area.
8  Certain chemicals have been banned because of their damaging effect on the environment.
9  We need to make fundamental changes to the way in which we treat our environment.
10  The radiation leak has had a disastrous effect on/upon the environment.
11  They assimilated their customs and behavior to the new environment.
12  The care of the environment is of prime importance.
13  If we continue to deplete the Earth's natural resources, we will cause serious damage to the environment.
14  Charles' concern for the environment sits uneasily with his collection of powerful cars.
15  She now had to transfer her design skills to a commercial environment.