festoon

It is a central element in the lavish altars erected to the deceased on November 1-2 and is also used to festoon homes and streets.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Scallops and cross-hatches festoon part of the home’s cladding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

This spring, billions of cicadas across the eastern half of the U.S. will emerge from their multiyear slumber to festoon the trees and sing their loud songs.

From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2024

On Sado Island itself, where banners and posters celebrating the World Heritage nomination festoon warehouses and shop windows, residents say any debate about Korean laborers is beside the point.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2022

We eat our lunches in the chilly dimly lit cellar of the school- house, where we sit in supervised rows on long scarred wooden benches under a festoon of heating pipes.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed announced cuts to the decorative lighting that usually festoons government buildings, for both Independence Day on March 26 and Eid.

From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026

Then, Olafsson blazed into the sequence that climaxes with the celebratory festoons of the 30th and final variation, the Quodlibet, which joyously weaves together strains of melody.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

The whole city has been decorated in readiness for the party: blue and white flags and festoons hang above the narrow streets.

From BBC ● May 4, 2023

AA memorabilia festoons the largest meeting room in Wilson House, a hotel built in the mid-1800s.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 11, 2020

It was made of granite for strength and massiveness, but like so many other things in Iofur’s palace, it was decorated with overelaborate swags and festoons of gilt that looked like tinsel on a mountainside.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

There’s a bakery/coffee shop, a lobby bar and restaurant, a poolside scene festooned with greenery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Smith makes treats like Skittles, gummy bears and pasta festooned with marigold petals, narrating each step in a baby-soft voice while wearing dreamy fits.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

In Havana's leafy middle-class Vedado neighborhood, pints at a dollar a pop were flowing at a watch party in a cultural center festooned with a Brazil flag and World Cup bunting.

From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026

A block later I hobbled past the Justice Department, its facade festooned with a giant banner of Trump’s face.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themselves in a green dusk thirty feet above him, and all about was the undergrowth.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

She also stood on a bench in a pink wedding cake of a dress, with guitar-shaped cutouts festooning her arms, posing like a surrealist’s conception of a religious icon.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2024

Those included festooning the mansion with flags from the University of Houston, rival of Rice University, where Youngkin played basketball.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2022

This time around, many of the arrangements feel more fully baked into the songwriting, as opposed to festooning synths to straight-ahead guitar rockers.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2020

In two caves, researchers previously documented tens of thousands of bat bones festooning the floors and walls.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 31, 2017

There were actual balloon arches and twisted garlands of pastel crepe paper festooning the walls.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer