bedeck
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The dining room table, where the sisters wrote, is strewn with manuscripts, quill pens and tea cups; a bonnet and shawl bedeck a chair in the small kitchen.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
With the magic of a clear glue varnish such as Modge Podge, you can bedeck everything from glassware, votives, pottery, frames, coasters and serving trays to handmade stationery or cards with your dried blossoms.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
So attention seemed merited by a 64-degree day when spring is in the air, fully formed blossoms bedeck the trees, and a weekend awaits us.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2022
Tents have been erected around Obama’s property and chairs and couches bedeck his spacious lawn for the last of the months-long preparations, according to the Mail.
From Fox News ● Aug. 7, 2021
Many thighbones he burned on the gods’ altars and many a woven and golden ornament hung to bedeck them, in his satisfaction; he had not thought life held such glory for him.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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Hilberath said her tiny home is not big enough for her Christmas tree which instead bedecks the terrace but she was still grateful for the people who had helped put a roof over her head.
From Reuters ● Dec. 23, 2021
Save for a blip of a scene from “Thriller,” no official footage of music videos that might ignite a mote of nostalgia bedecks its architecture.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2019
Her distinctive crest, two facing T’s that resemble a medieval cross, bedecks ballet flats from Manhasset to Myanmar; her signature caftans billow above thousands of tummies; the vice president’s wife carries one of her handbags.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2011
Moku-hali'i is the one who bedecks the island.
From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel Bright Emerson
Every little cottage, every hill—the hills are all heather-clad, for the summer’s bloom bedecks them—every wood, ay, every tree recalls some sweet memory of the bygone.
From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Gordon Stables
They bustle through the doors after the long journey, sometimes bedecked in Route 66 merchandise, and sometimes buying Mel’s own brand of Route 66 merch while there.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
Downtown Munich is best-known for chic shops and flashy fast cars but right now its streets are bedecked with posters advertising next generation drones.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
That day, the skater -- whose Telegram channel has almost 150,000 subscribers -- posted a photo of herself in a room bedecked with pink-and-white bouquets.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
Smudgy cartoonlike pastels coexisted with raw plaster works and jewel boxes bedecked elaborately with wool, glass, straight pins, knives and sometimes taxidermized birds — animistic objects that resembled little else being made in the 1960s.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
By the end of the tournament, the suavely bedecked Bobby had played all eleven games without a single loss.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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It was a show of tradition as the procession approached the castle, with the bright flag bedecking the late queen’s coffin standing out amid the more somber tones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
“The Abolitionists hoped that bedecking slaves in Union blue and enlisting us in a fight for our own freedom would make men of us,” Etheridge says.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
All those holiday branches bedecking the boulevards in Chicago?
From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2021
Maxx and other retailers high and low, the masses are swooning over Beckham bedecking our favorite box store.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2017
Then came the students from Brill, all in full dress, and led by William Philander Tubbs, bedecked as only that dudish student would think of bedecking himself.
From The Rover Boys in New York Or, Saving their father's honor by Edward Stratemeyer
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