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• A string of sooshki hangs around her neck like an Olympic garland.1972, The Malahat Review, numbers 21–24, page 30. From the entry sooshka
• Once a year, the local department store would festoon the window displays with twinkly lights and fake garland.2020 June 18, Simon Doonan, “Let's Return to the Exuberance of Window Shopping”, in Town & Country. From the entry zhoosh
• Garlands don’t come cheap, yet if you’ve been before, you’ll know that garlands fly off the rack very quickly.2017 September 1, Mitchell Pereira, “The Singapore Thai Disco: A Glimpse Into The Different Facets Of A Siam Diu”, in Hype & Stuff, Hype &…. From the entry Thai disco
• The crancelin, running from upper left to bottom right, took the form of a crenellated garland in deep green.2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 565. From the entry crancelin
• It doesn't sound like spring to me, or like green grass or garlands of flowers or girls in flimsy dresses.2009, Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 196. From the entry Verna
• He has unattractive, crocodiley skin, eyes like fried eggs and garlands of spare tyres round his fat neck.2009, Pratima Mitchell, Indian Summer, London: Walker Books, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry crocodiley
• On request Bhagwan shree was also initiating people by sending them the Rajneeshi garland and their new name of sanyas.2006, Swami Jn̄ānabheda, The Rebellious Enlightened Master Osho, Diamond Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 350. From the entry Rajneeshi
• Mrs Horrox told me departees were once presented with a garland of plumeria, but the Mission elders deemed garlands immoral.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN. From the entry plumeria
• Kydd went to the shot garland around the main hatch and rolled a ball on to the cradle.2002, Julian Stockwin, Kydd: A Naval Adventure, →ISBN, page 214. From the entry shot garland
• One 12 -pound shot was found resting in the shot garland in the bow and the other under the forward deck.2002, John R. Bratten, The Gondola Philadelphia and the Battle of Lake Champlain, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry shot garland
• She is a restaurateuse of great distinction, suitably garlanded by Michelin, and she had just opened an eating house in Paris.1988, Russell Harty, Mr Harty’s Grand Tour, Century Hutchinson, page 16. From the entry restaurateuse
• He, watchman of gardens, keeps evil away with his mentula up, warding off blight and thieves, garlanded with figs and grapes.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!. From the entry mentula
• He’s a musician in a Thai Disco, a “flower joint” where girls from poor neighbouring countries sing, dance and mingle for a garland or two.2017 September 1, Mitchell Pereira, “The Singapore Thai Disco: A Glimpse Into The Different Facets Of A Siam Diu”, in Hype & Stuff, Hype &…. From the entry Thai disco
• My father was forever trying to tame this lumpen block, buttressing it with rock gardens and rock walls garlanded with pigface, courtesy of my mother.2015, Magda Szubanski, Reckoning, Text Publishing, page 52. From the entry pigface
• Bob took it home to their little apartment, and Jayne nearly smothered the little tree in blinking lights and ornaments and garlands and tinsel.2010, Delilah Scott, Emma Troy, “’Tis Better to Give … Or Why Beauty is in the Eye of the Gift Giver”, in The Upside-down Christmas Tree…. From the entry Charlie Brown Christmas tree
• Partridge Fine Art of London has a carved and gilded rococo chimneypiece festooned with Ho-Ho birds, garlands of flowers, fruit and female masks.2007 February 9, Wendy Moonan, “Relics of the 19th Century, in a Sentimental Mood”, in New York Times. From the entry chimneypiece
• Around his neck he wore a garland of rosquillas – large hardcrusted doughnuts covered in sticky white icing – on a string.1992, Gijs Van Hensbergen, chapter 6, in A Taste of Castile, London: Sinclair-Stevenson, →ISBN, page 104. From the entry hardcrusted
• Merry amoretti wove garlands above windows.1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 6, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, page 192. From the entry amoretto
• In the parish church at Matlock six exceptionally well-preserved garlands, known locally as crantses, hang in a glass-fronted cupboard in the south-west porch.1966, Roy Christian, The Country Life Book of Old English Customs, page 56. From the entry crants
• Then on a given day, they would go and ungarland the tree, put the garlands on their own heads and walk down to the river.1958, Recorded Folk Music, volumes 1-2, page 2. From the entry ungarland
• Youngfolk are sometimes seen to have placed a ' puthi-mala ' (garland of beads) of blue, white or amber colour round their necks.1939, Minendra Nath Basu, The Bunas of Bengal, page 61. From the entry youngfolk
• From the crystal and white rose centrepieces to the silver-thread table runners to the vast flower garlands to the hanging tea lights, it was a Pinterester’s dream.2015, Lisa Dickenson, Catch Me if You Cannes: Part 2, Sphere, →ISBN. From the entry Pinterester
• Lionel Kessler, relaxing perhaps on a Louis Quinze day bed, garlanded all round with lines of beauty, seeing welcome proof that his clever maligned young friend was a mensch.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 428. From the entry mensch
• The Renaissance saw a renewed interest in flowers and decoration became more studied and elaborate, garlands and wreaths being much in evidence in paintings of this time.1978, Jacqueline Seymour, “Introduction”, in Garden Flower, Crescent Books, →LCCN, page 3. From the entry in evidence
• On thy farewell shall pen out many a verse ; And garlands gay shall vestal virgins fling On thy cold grave, whiles clampering bells do ring.1974 -, George Bagshawe Harrison, A second Elizabethan journal, →ISBN. From the entry clampering
• When we think of Thai discos or siam dius, we associate it with blaring EDM music, flower garlands and scantily-clad women playing drinking games with men over towers of beer.2017 August 17, Cheryl Chiew, “Why Some Singaporean Men Date Thai Disco Girls Instead Of Local Girls”, in ZULA (blog), Singapore: ZULA…. From the entry siam diu
• And it is by their fopperies and their frivolities that we know that their sinister philosophy is sincere; in their lights and garlands and ribbons we read their indwelling despair.1902, G.K. Chesterton, Twelve Types. From the entry foppery

Meaning of garland

1. noun A circular or linear decoration, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.
2. noun An accolade or mark of honour.
3. noun A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.

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Questions about garland in a sentence

How do you use garland in a sentence?

Garland is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Both brides and grooms in native Hawaiian tradition wear flower garlands as a physical manifestation of their love for one another, and to some, the twining of the stems is reflective of two families now becoming one.”

What is a short sentence with garland?

“Merry amoretti wove garlands above windows.”

What does garland mean?

Garland means a circular or linear decoration, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.