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

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

Images of and homages to the statue now festoon the city.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2021

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