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“It affects us all,” said Hussein, 22, who lives and works near Sparkhill, a largely Muslim neighborhood in Birmingham, where Palestinian flags flutter above shops and festoon a nearby park.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 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

Found materials, including street signage rulers, ornithology illustrations and children’s drawings, festoon the canvas, mingling with hurried chalk annotations and prays of gestural brushwork resembling graffiti.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

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

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

Best wallpaper: The glorious peacock pattern that festoons the walls of Amy Schumer’s character’s apartment in “I Feel Pretty.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2019

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

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

Critically huzzahed, festooned with Emmys, the 2023 first season of “Beef” told a story of road rage escalating to warfare and finally winding down to a sort of understanding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

Former England captain Sir David and Spice Girl-turned-fashion designer Lady Victoria plan to install the festooned lighting around the pond at their home in Great Tew near Chipping Norton.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026

Yellow ribbons festooned some nearby trees, and an offering of flowers, many fresh from the stream of new visitors, was heaped near Guthrie’s mailbox.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

Hundreds of people filled the room; they stood along the walls or danced under a ceiling festooned with red and white crepe paper.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty

The next morning, through their telephoto lenses and binoculars, the media could see green-and-white floral garlands festooning the South Portico, and — hmm, let’s squint a little harder — is that two officiants?

From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2022

Locke has continued to develop the theme, festooning cheap historical busts of British royals with fake gold and colonial war medals to reflect on the burden of history.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 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

A half mile away, she saw the paper festooning the trees and bushes in front of Finn’s house.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby