festoon

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

A UK-style red telephone booth sits on one corner, Norwegian flags festoon posts and staircases and a “Velkommen til Poulsbo!” mural and monstrous Viking invite day-trippers and weekend stays.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2024

Filaments of dust and gas festoon this star-forming region in a new infrared image from MIRI.

From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2023

Here, millions of butterflies festoon the trees in shuddering layers so thick it’s impossible to see the foliage beneath.

From Slate • Oct. 11, 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