festoon
Example Sentences
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Customers are paying them hundreds—sometimes thousands—of dollars to festoon their homes with gourds of every shape and size.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025
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
Here the breeze was fitful and allowed the strings of the parachute to tangle and festoon; and the figure sat, its helmeted head between its knees, held by a complication of lines.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.