decoration
Example Sentences
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“It’s a decoration, because your system has to now fight the sugar while it’s trying to digest it.”
From MarketWatch • May 10, 2026
These exchanges appear to have encouraged cultural growth, more complex social behavior, and innovations such as formal burials and the symbolic use of ochre for decoration.
From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2026
Down the steps stands an oversize candle—what otherwise would have been a cheerful decoration now an earnest memorial.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
That has long supported its dense network of picture houses -- around 80 today -- where film lovers can catch classics and auteur productions in sometimes cramped conditions and with spartan decoration.
From Barron's • Nov. 29, 2025
I start fiddling with the cream hand towels that are just for decoration.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
Vocabulary lists containing decoration
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