How to Use milieu in a Sentence

milieu

noun
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  • True, prepping is an overwhelmingly white, male milieu.
    — Ed Nawotka, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2020
  • With little help from that quarter, Daniel tries to make sense of his new and radically different milieu but cannot shake off his upbringing.
    — Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2020
  • His liberalism seems to have been inspired, indirectly, by the Catholic milieu of his early life and his parents’ aversion to the abuse of the weak by the strong.
    — David Sessions, The New Republic, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The change in direction—from #MeToo parable to study of a dysfunctional writer and his milieu—makes this a different sort of story, but not a lesser one.
    — Laura Marsh, The New Republic, 12 Feb. 2020
  • But that doesn’t mean adjustments haven’t had to happen — all of it taking place in a milieu of declining residential and outpatient enrollment and the revenue that funds such programs.
    — Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, 3 Apr. 2020
  • To them, and to their social milieu, Karen and Barry Mason were a conventional, middle-class Jewish couple.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2020
  • There’s the milieu of the cell, the cell is doing its thing.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The same goes for this blue dot fixed in its green milieu.
    — Jessica Boddy, Popular Science, 31 May 2020
  • 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
  • Its milieu is young and left-leaning, and its tone is dry, sharp, and cerebral.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Whatever your milieu, the medium is now yours to choose.
    — Liz Maynes-Aminzade, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 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
  • Two, students die a lot, partly as a result of this macabre Montessori milieu.
    — Jason Kehe, Wired, 14 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Even within the milieu of a cooperative household, one person’s sleep can occur at the expense of another person’s sleep.
    — Lisa Strauss, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
  • Maddie, whose literary hopes were discouraged by her conservative milieu, is both a textbook case of the problem with no name and the epitome of an ambition monster.
    — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024

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