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No extravagant decorations that normally bedeck the West Bank city of Bethlehem at Christmas.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2023

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

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

Months pass, and Sigrid’s sorrow disappears; The wild death-raven’s might no more she fears; A gentle red bedecks her cheek again, And briny drops her eye no longer stain.

From Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces by George Henry Borrow

Here is a poem, "When Sol bedecks the mead with light, And pallid Cynthia sheds her ray," addressed by her Ladyship to your humble servant.'

From Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

This time Trump's focus was on the Oval Office, which he has bedecked with gold ornaments since returning to power last year, and the neighboring Cabinet Room.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

And despite her middle-class upbringing, some see Lagarde as an elitist, often bedecked in Chanel and carrying bags from Hermès or Louis Vuitton.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

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

He fared better than his twin, vanquishing an elderly knight whose mount was bedecked with silver griffins against a striped blue-and-white field.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

Are they all in love, That every one her own hath garnished With such bedecking ornaments of praise?

From Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare