adorn
Example Sentences
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“That picture was made, not to conceal, or destroy the apple; but to adorn, and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple—not the apple for the picture.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
And I feel like it’s a trap a lot of actors fall into, is thinking they’re not enough and you have to adorn a performance to be really seen or heard or impress.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
Blue ribbons symbolising the victims adorn the airport, while letters remembering the dead line the stairways.
From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025
At AC Milan's Milanello training base images of club legends adorn the walls.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025
At first glance, the place looks like nothing so much as the canal network that Percival Lowell imagined to adorn Mars, and that, we now know from space vehicle exploration, does not exist at all.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing adorn
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
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