How to Use milieu in a Sentence

milieu

noun
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  • There’s the milieu of the cell, the cell is doing its thing.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Fifty-eight years on from the film’s milieu, too few lessons have been learned.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Plus, Daryl gets a new favorite weapon, one that fits the milieu.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
  • But experts said the presence of the group in the milieu of the protest movement is troubling.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 25 May 2024
  • This is the milieu where Skip Bayless honed his warped mind.
    — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The onus is on the performers to flesh out the milieu — one of the reasons the play is a favorite of acting students.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • On the right, the mushroom cloud of a bomb looms over swirls of factory smoke, the scene a motley milieu of muddied grays and browns.
    — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
  • That heady milieu would cause most young people (say, her bus-mates) to lose themselves in the fame bubble.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 7 July 2024
  • Vance’s law school friend, the one who talked about his beard, told me that Vance was wrestling with the values of his new milieu throughout his time at Yale.
    — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022
  • This was the milieu in which Sui began her life as an adult, dazzling and askew, all the brighter for its dark undertow.
    — Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • In this diverse milieu, the children found their way to a new common language.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2022
  • And that just became an interesting milieu for the movie to take place.
    — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Even so, bookshelves’ worth of literary works have been set in that milieu.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • She's swept into his WASP-y milieu, charmed by his manners and thrilled by his wild stories and lust.
    — Marci Schmitt, Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
  • That, too, added to the unstable milieu of the club's first-ever postseason berth.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Read full article The other tweak is the milieu, which is Broadway.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
  • But the milieu is allowed to be as (and usually more) interesting as the man who finds himself in the midst of it.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Indeed, The Last Starfighter‘s most winning moments come from this film’s set-in-the-everyday milieu.
    — Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2022
  • These appetizers set the comic tone for the evening and revealed its 1960s milieu.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Here, by blending the worlds of Broadway and the not-so-big top, a tent always in danger of collapse, Stone captures a milieu that has slipped away from many hands.
    — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
  • With the new space, a chance to look outside of that milieu—and, indeed, into the Met’s own backyard— presented itself.
    — Marley Marius, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2021
  • There, Cocteau found both solace and inspiration in the everyday milieu of the Cote d’Azur.
    — Kelsy Chauvin, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Aug. 2022
  • One is an artistic milieu, so the German century through the world of art, and the other in the world of German business and industry.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The way the music, the filmmaking, the milieu all create a feeling of fragile hope and innocence just moves me every time.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • To the street-art impresario Steve Lazarides, Invader is a purist in a milieu awash in easy money and obvious gags.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • With The Chapel, Deruddere is back into the world of music but there’s a far different milieu being explored.
    — Mathew Scott, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2023
  • One, PopCorners was going to stay true to the milieu of Breaking Bad, which was really important to us.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2023
  • At the center of this milieu, which is largely understudied, was Lynes.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 28 June 2024
  • Skip, his brain poisoned and totally devoted to the take in and of itself, was a natural fit for this milieu.
    — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2023
  • If the milieu resembles that of The Cosby Show, the similarities end there.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2021

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