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Six example sentences with halcyon, each labelled with its topic.
Fans still call the mid-nineties the halcyon years, when the band toured constantly and every record sold a million.
Music
She remembers halcyon summers on the island, when the ferry ran twice daily and no hotel rose above the pines.
Travel
Older traders describe the long expansion as halcyon days, with steady growth, cheap credit, and almost no unemployment anywhere.
Economics
Fans remember the halcyon seasons of the early eighties, when the arena sold out and the team lost twice at home all year.
Basketball
The memoir opens in a halcyon childhood by the river, all long afternoons and unlocked doors, before the family moved to the city.
Literature
Founders speak of the halcyon years when money was cheap and a good slide deck could raise millions in a week.
Startups
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