adorn
Example Sentences
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Despite the current trend, Tajik mosaic artist Dzhuraev wants to believe that "the time will come" when mosaics will once again adorn buildings.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
For example Queen Anne, a style, can adorn a worker’s cottage, a type.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
And I feel like it’s a trap a lot of actors fall into, is thinking they’re not enough and you have to adorn a performance to be really seen or heard or impress.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
At AC Milan's Milanello training base images of club legends adorn the walls.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025
Though it is from Ashima’s father, no drawings for Gogol adorn the margins, no elephants or parrots or tigers.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Vocabulary lists containing adorn
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
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