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• The castle was adorned with ribbons, flags and other flutters that waved in the stiff wind.From the entry flutter
• A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.From the entry basket
• Each table was adorned with a bouquet of giant balloons.From the entry bouquet
• Catholic churches are adorned differently from Protestant ones.From the entry catholic
• A shard of chocolate adorns the dish.From the entry shard
• Popular “Studygram” accounts showcase elaborately designed notes adorned with calligraphed titles and pastel color pallets.2021 November 9, Noah Do, “Noah's Arc”, in The Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell University, page 5. From the entry studygram
• Chrysobulls themselves were adorned with the imperial effigy in the early Palaiologan period.2020, A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography, page 376. From the entry chrysobull
• Her hair is braided and adorned with wide ribbons, and she wears black ankle boots.2017 April 19, “Mexico’s Folk Dances: Costumes and Features”, in Vallarta Lifestyles. From the entry Mexican pink
• Fleece lined, the dark hide exterior was adorned with intricate beading by a truly skilled artisan.2016, Debra Salonen, Black Hills Native Son. From the entry made in China
• He was adorned in almost peak caucasity attire - as if he just stepped out from Dr.2015 April 20, Hau Chu, “Letter from the EIC”, in IV: Fourth Estate: George Mason University's official student news outlet, page 3. From the entry caucasity
• A bombaceous tree here and there adorned the forest with its numerous purple flowers.2014, Richard Spruce, Alfred Russel Wallace, Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes, page 300. From the entry bombaceous
• His preferred garb was a satin-trimmed velvet robe and shoes, usually adorned with expensive jewelry.2013, Linda Clark, "The Bhagwan's 93 Rolls-Royces", in Keith Martin, Strange but True Tales of Car Collecting: Drowned Bugattis, Buried…. From the entry out of central casting
• A chair rail adorned with Chinese fretwork molding was a specific meander that repeated throughout the home.2008, Todd Merrill, James Mont: The King Cole Penthouse, Lulu.com, →ISBN. From the entry meander
• If you must adorn your dog with a hat, go with a toboggan-style hat.2005, Dave Smith, Life's Too Short to Be an Underdog...And Other Spiritual Life Lessons I Learned from My Dog. From the entry toboggan
• Inuit women traditionally adorned themselves with finger masks during special ceremonies.2001, Sheridan Blau, Writers Craft: Red, →ISBN, page 454. From the entry finger mask
• Even the mantelpiece is adorned with a totally unfunctional tasselled valance rather like an altar frontal.1969, David G. Irwin, The Visual Arts, Taste and Criticism, page 27. From the entry frontal
• Flowers of magic size and lovely lustre, in tall golden vases, adorned the long, lace-spread, silver-gobleted tables.1926, Isidora Newman, The Legend of the Tulip and Other Fairy Flowers. From the entry gobleted
• She was adorned with many movable planks, each laid deckwise when not in use as a gangway.1913, Catholic World - Volume 97, page 769. From the entry deckwise
• Beaumont, the editor, too--I suppose he is lying upon the blue-and-red Turkey carpet which adorned his sanctum.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry Turkey carpet
• The wealthy adorn themselves besides with ribbons and garterings of various colors, beads and silver broaches.1900, Edwin MacMinn, On the Frontier with Colonel Antes. From the entry gartering
• There were silver tongs for the sugar, apostle spoons with elaborate handles, a milk jug adorned with a pheasant in flight.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 114. From the entry apostle spoon
• The change of blue of the flags adorning the Elysée Palace was first made a year ago but went largely unnoticed.2021 November 11, “Macron reverts French flag to navy blue from lighter EU shade”, in euronews. From the entry unnoticed
• Building walls are adorned with photos of eagle hunters, and the eagle is in the provincial coat of arms.[2018 December 22, Hannah Reyes Morales, “At 14, She Hunts Wolves and Takes Selfies With Cherished Eagle in Mongolia”, in The New York…. From the entry Ölgii
• More than any digital comparison, this forever-changing lettered and light-bulbed canvas continues to reflexively adorn the progress of our athletes.2018 September 26, Richard Johnson, quotee, “Eight great Australian buildings: from the Sydney Opera House to a Wagga woolshed – in…. From the entry light-bulbed
• Someday, my art would adorn every corner of Dimashq.2017, Kirthi Jayakumar, chapter 1, in The Doodler of Dimashq: A Heart Wrenching Tale of Hope from Syria’s Rubble, New Delhi: Readomania…. From the entry Dimashq
• They adorn themselves with different kind of ornaments.2015, Steven L. Danver, Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures and Contemporary Issues, illustrated, reprint…. From the entry bajuband
• They adorned the towns with avenues of gibbets, the burnt villages with pyramids of heads and the roadsides with impaled corpses.2013, Patrick Leigh Fermor, “A Hanging Glass Box”, in Colin Thubron, Artemis Cooper, editors, The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to…. From the entry bashi-bazouk
• The Lord of Blood, adorned with glossy armor and atop a stalwart steed, appeared to have the opulence of a king.2010, Rhett C. Bruno, Isinda: Fallen Dagger, Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 126. From the entry coal
• The bride wore an ivory and pink silk lehenga skirt, a blouse adorned with Swarovski crystals and an 18-foot-long chiffon veil.2008 January 13, Joann Biondi, “Sabeen Ali and Hashim Mian”, in New York Times. From the entry lehenga
• In the bunkrooms, adorned with family photos and a needlepoint extolling the virtues of firefighters — respected, proud, dependable — Mr.2007 June 21, Shaila Dewan, “City Mourns Firefighters and 9 Lost on the Job: Fathers, Mentors, Friends”, in New York Times. From the entry bunkroom
• Sanchez glosses Garrula quo comix with the familiar warning against female loquacity — "silence adorns virgins, chattering unadorns them"2000, Dana E. Stewart, Alison Cornish, Sparks and Seeds: Medieval Literature and Its Afterlife. From the entry unadorn
• An elderly woman in Kurpian dress, adorned with amber beads of her own manufacture followed, carrying a consecrated candle.1992, Margaret Read MacDonald, The Folklore of World Holidays, Detroit: Gale Research, →ISBN, page 462. From the entry Kurpian
• A fat marcassin to adorn the board.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 136. From the entry marcassin
• Each is decorated with a simple disk in reserve and a band in reserve adorned with white dots.1973, Charles Kyrle Wilkinson, Nishapur: Pottery of the Early Islamic Period, New York, N.Y: Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 161. From the entry reserve
• So-called icicle plants, their leaves thick and waxen, crept across the drifting dunes, adorning them with their own beautiful blooms.1970, Weldon Philip Keller, Under desert skies, page 231. From the entry icicle plant
• The yellow warbler may adorn your garden with its nest and place a cradleful of fuzzy nestlings at your elbow.1943, Nature Magazine, page 190. From the entry cradleful
• Anthoony Comstock would be adorned with a female appellation.1912 August 24, T.J. Savage, “Book Reviews: An Essay on Hasheesh. By Victor Robinson”, in The Lancet-clinic, volume 108, page 213. From the entry podder

Meaning of adorn

1. verb To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
2. noun Adornment.
3. adjective Adorned; ornate.

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How do you use adorn in a sentence?

Adorn is used as a verb, noun and adjective. For example: “A gallery of paintings was adorned with the works of some of the great masters.”

What is a short sentence with adorn?

“A fat marcassin to adorn the board.”

What does adorn mean?

Adorn means to make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.