bedeck

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

Meaning no disrespect to "The Good Wife," "The Americans," "Top of the Lake," "Scandal" or any of the other dramas on that Metacritic lists, many of which I would bedeck with superlatives myself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2014

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

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

Look at yon carven shield, Above the chantry door, No blazoned pride bedecks its field, But emblems five sprent o'er.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers

An old lady would now 59 create a sensation indeed if she appeared in a turban like that which bedecks the sitting figure.

From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by William Powell Frith

The Panshanger Community Centre in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, was bedecked with Union flag bunting and plastic chairs.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

The usually sleepy Laotian capital Vientiane has an uncharacteristic buzz, bedecked with flags and T-shirt vendors ahead of commemorations of 50 years of communist rule Tuesday, but for many young people history carries little weight.

From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025

It’s just a quiet drive beneath a near mile of stately cedars bedecked with strings of multicolor lights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025

Renaissance and Medieval pieces, and the “quality camp” or “fantasy furniture” he favored — weird and whimsical pieces embellished with mythical creatures; chairs sprouting antlers, torcheres bedecked with gargoyles, commodes atop griffin feet.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

The members of the ensemble that plays odd but melodic and danceable tunes in the ballroom are bedecked in suits of red velvet.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

This goes some way to explain those famous collars bedecking the otherwise sober, black judicial robes.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2018

Nor were the two ladies behind-hand, I ween, at the bedecking.

From Robin Hood by J. Walker (Joseph Walker) McSpadden