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

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 young woman also, even here as everywhere else, bedecks herself as best she can; but fair she certainly is not in our eyes.

From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie

The 30-year-old curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario had been scrutinizing a portrait of a young Black woman bedecked in jewels and wearing a shimmering blue gown with pearls around her neck and wrists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

There was even a guard of honour with team-mates bedecked in kilts.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 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

Style: Dylan performed in mime makeup and a broad-brimmed hat bedecked in flowers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2024

I follow behind Katherine, who looks absolutely stunning in a day dress bedecked with applique roses along the hem.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

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

The magnate hated it, and in 1904, he sold it to Charles Lang Freer, who reassembled it in the States, bedecking it with ceramics from Iran, Japan, China, Syria and Korea.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018

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

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2018

When permission is given to send her to Court, what joy there is, what bedecking, what congratulation!

From Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond by Budgett Meakin