adorn
Example Sentences
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Some Iranian embassies have yet to hang portraits of him even though images of Iran’s supreme leader typically adorn most rooms.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
Awards for outstanding cuisine adorn Rozafa's shelves and pictures of famous diners, including Priscilla Presley and Boris Johnson, line its walls.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 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
Smaller versions are also produced by the city's craftsmen and adorn lamp posts, office buildings and homes across the archipelago nation of 116 million which is home to Asia's largest Catholic population.
From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025
Though it is from Ashima’s father, no drawings for Gogol adorn the margins, no elephants or parrots or tigers.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Vocabulary lists containing adorn
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