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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

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2023

And by plant, I mean play, adorn and festoon the landscape with seasonal compositions that echo colorful detailing on the house.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2021

Flags festoon the theater’s heights, the red-and-gold pennant of Gens Taia snapping in the wind beside the black, diamond-emblazoned standard of Blackcliff.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

Since early Thursday, BNP backers started gathering in the capital, plastering the streets with banners and festoons bearing images of Rahman.

From Barron's ● Dec. 25, 2025

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

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

From Washington Times ● Oct. 11, 2020

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

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

Lisa Nandy, the Labour culture secretary, is speaking from her Wigan constituency which was proudly festooned with bunting during the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022.

From BBC ● 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

There she sits, smiling primly, festooned with blossoms.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

You could see it reflected in the diverse faces of the audience, the fashions festooning the lobby, the programs listing the all-star, almost all-Black cast.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2021

Here it is 2021, and NBC Universal’s plan for survival in the streaming age now relies on Peacock, one of the new services festooning your TV app screen like medals on a dictator’s uniform.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2021

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

From Scientific American ● Aug. 31, 2017

“The Wake of the Whale” is just as complex as it shows a hurtling railway engine with a decaying cetacean straddling its top and ragged garlands of greenery festooning its cow-catcher.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2016

As they approached, they could see tier upon tier of lights festooning the Mile-High Macllwaine.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer