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No extravagant decorations that normally bedeck the West Bank city of Bethlehem at Christmas.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2023

With the magic of a clear glue varnish such as Modge Podge, you can bedeck everything from glassware, votives, pottery, frames, coasters and serving trays to handmade stationery or cards with your dried blossoms.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

So attention seemed merited by a 64-degree day when spring is in the air, fully formed blossoms bedeck the trees, and a weekend awaits us.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2022

Tents have been erected around Obama’s property and chairs and couches bedeck his spacious lawn for the last of the months-long preparations, according to the Mail.

From Fox News ● Aug. 7, 2021

Many thighbones he burned on the gods’ altars and many a woven and golden ornament hung to bedeck them, in his satisfaction; he had not thought life held such glory for him.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Hilberath said her tiny home is not big enough for her Christmas tree which instead bedecks the terrace but she was still grateful for the people who had helped put a roof over her head.

From Reuters ● Dec. 23, 2021

Save for a blip of a scene from “Thriller,” no official footage of music videos that might ignite a mote of nostalgia bedecks its architecture.

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2019

Her distinctive crest, two facing T’s that resemble a medieval cross, bedecks ballet flats from Manhasset to Myanmar; her signature caftans billow above thousands of tummies; the vice president’s wife carries one of her handbags.

From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2011

Months pass, and Sigrid’s sorrow disappears; The wild death-raven’s might no more she fears; A gentle red bedecks her cheek again, And briny drops her eye no longer stain.

From Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces by George Henry Borrow

My soul is a tomb where—bad monk that I be— I dwell and search its depths from all eternity, And nought bedecks the walls of the odious spot.

From The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

Matt Gibson, 52, moors his sage-green houseboat, bedecked with plants, on the Regent's Canal near central London.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

But this year, her living room is an explosion of colour, bedecked with foil stars, tinsel and homemade paper chains and ribbon garlands.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025

Style: Dylan performed in mime makeup and a broad-brimmed hat bedecked in flowers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2024

Their bodies were their canvases, which they bedecked in feather boas, tutus, corsets, Victorian petticoats, Edwardian frock coats, wigs, wings, headdresses, ribbons, sequins, rhinestones, satin, face paint and an abundance of glitter.

From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

He fared better than his twin, vanquishing an elderly knight whose mount was bedecked with silver griffins against a striped blue-and-white field.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

It was a show of tradition as the procession approached the castle, with the bright flag bedecking the late queen’s coffin standing out amid the more somber tones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2022

At “puffy white,” the blossoms seemed pale globes bedecking trees and branches.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2022

“The Abolitionists hoped that bedecking slaves in Union blue and enlisting us in a fight for our own freedom would make men of us,” Etheridge says.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2022

This goes some way to explain those famous collars bedecking the otherwise sober, black judicial robes.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2018

Elizabeth did not set the Ruby away in her state-crown but kept it by her, no doubt for the frequent bedecking of her royal person.

From Stories about Famous Precious Stones by Mrs Goddard Orpen