adornment
Example Sentences
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Canaanland is named for the promised land; its Faith Tabernacle can, and often does, hold 50,000 people in a building that resembles an aircraft hangar, its “almost sterile interior” suggesting that “hope is adornment enough.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
And then with the hair adornment, you have the alligator, you have honey bees.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2024
He really was a meaningless adornment, like hood adornment.
From Slate • Sep. 18, 2024
“For example, the Targaryen look, it’s sort of brutalist in style, in terms of its adornment and embroidery, it’s more abstract, whereas the folks at Kings Landing are more naturalistic.”
From BBC • Aug. 3, 2024
A gold finger-ring is his only adornment and sign of office.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing adornment
"The Gift of the Magi"
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"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d" by Walt Whitman
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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