- present tense form of adorn (3rd person singular).
adorns
Example Sentences
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His name adorns Southern Methodist University’s football stadium, and he has been seen golfing with former President George W. Bush.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Glimpses of the Doheny Mansion, clockwise from left: the music room; a stained glass sky light; a sculpture adorns a table in the Pompeian Room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
It was Brown, a Rhode Island blue blood whose name now adorns an Ivy League university, who in 1790 financed Slater’s stolen ideas for a state-of-the-art cotton mill.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
Behind the graceful figure that adorns one of New York City’s cherished spaces was an artist devoted to her work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Small red and yellow flowers and a trail of ivy spill out of the basket beneath them, and a tiny model of the medicine wheel on a spike adorns the center of the arrangement.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
