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adorn

[uh-dawrn] / əˈdɔrn /


Example Sentences

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For example Queen Anne, a style, can adorn a worker’s cottage, a type.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

It will adorn luxury hotels and residences across the Middle East, Europe and the United States, where the Vietnam-based Jonathan Charles furniture company has largely shrugged off US President Donald Trump's tariffs.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

At AC Milan's Milanello training base images of club legends adorn the walls.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

You can go crazy with string lights to create an enchanted tree in your backyard or adorn it with some creepy critters — snakes, bats, spiders…you name it — to amp up the scare factor.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 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




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