- present tense form of adorn (3rd person singular).
adorns
Example Sentences
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It’s not just about attracting casual fans to watch the icon whose face adorns everything from airplanes to skin care products.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
His name adorns Southern Methodist University’s football stadium, and he has been seen golfing with former President George W. Bush.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
George Yount, whose name adorns Yountville, wrote of seeing 50 or 60 bears one day, and killing five or six of them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
It was Brown, a Rhode Island blue blood whose name now adorns an Ivy League university, who in 1790 financed Slater’s stolen ideas for a state-of-the-art cotton mill.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
There was a visiting cardinal in the glorious tasselled hat which still adorns the notepaper of Wolsey’s College at Oxford.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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