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Sentences with adorn

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  • His watercolour designs adorn a wide range of books. [VERB noun]
  • She adorned her hair with flowers
  • He dotes on his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, whose pictures adorn a wall in the TV room, next to a huge portrait of himself.
  • Large banners now adorn many streets in Indonesia warning of the dangers of narcotics.
  • A man adorned with noble statuary and columnsa character adorned with every Christian gracea gallery of paintings was adorned with the works of some of the great masters
  • Garlands of flowers adorning their hair.
  • A rainbow of them already adorn most of one wall of the main hall.
  • And so we seek to adorn the coffin with football jumpers.
  • Piety adorned Abigail's character.
  • Now clad in golden sunlight a bride adorn 'd I stand, My dowry, England's birthright, her banner in my hand.
  • His face — and those of his fellow Shrek the Third cast mates — adorn kilogram bags of M&Ms and Dairy Farmers' custard.
  • Adorn is used of that which adds to the beauty of something by gracing it with its own beauty [roses adorned her hair]; decorate implies the addition of something to render attractive what would otherwise be plain or bare [to decorate a wall with pictures]; ornament is used with reference to accessories which enhance the appearance [a crown ornamented with jewels]; embellish suggests the addition of something highly ornamental or ostentatious for effect; to , beautify is to lend beauty to, or heighten the beauty of; , bedeck emphasizes the addition of showy things [bedecked with jewelry]
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