ornamentation

Example Sentences

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Through every change of style, Thorn’s voice — low, smoky and pensive, rarely indulging in vibrato or ornamentation — gave the duo’s songs an emotional equipoise.

From New York Times

Simpson certainly embellished the melodic lines with ornate ornamentation; not for nothing has Crutchfield called one offering of his program “ornamentation boot camp.”

From New York Times

More than three quarters of the world’s crops and flowering plants, whether wild or cultivated for human food or ornamentation, are pollinated by animals—primarily by wild and domesticated bees.

From Scientific American

Not one for excessive ornamentation, I typically cringe when stores put out holiday decorations early, or force Christmas carols on shoppers before the Halloween costumes have been marked down.

From Washington Post

The birds readily nest in boxes in the wild and have striking plumage that seems ideal for testing ideas about the evolutionary point of the ornamentation.

From Science Magazine