Sample Sentences for
adorn
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    They were meant to sit at the feet of their master before a fire in a manor house—not adorn the hands of a willow in the lobby of a grand hotel….  (source)
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    There were also precious stones, gold masks adorned with red and white feathers, and stone statues embedded with jewels.  (source)
    adorned = decorated
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    They'd taken the frame of one of the Christmas floats and adorned it with thousands of summer blooms.  (source)
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    Buck's Peak looked the way it always did at Christmas—a snowy spire, adorned with evergreens—  (source)
    adorned = decorated
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    Flower boxes adorn the windows, foaming over with geraniums.†  (source)
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    Bob's tail makes me dizzy and confused. It has meanings within meanings, like human words. "I am sad," it says. "I am happy." It says, "Beware! I may be tiny, but my teeth are sharp." Gorillas don't have any use for tails. Our feelings are uncomplicated. Our rumps are unadorned.  (source)
    unadorned = not decorated
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unadorned means not and reverses the meaning of adorned. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Kit curtsied, noting with satisfaction that this was one woman who did not despise vain adornment.†  (source)
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    From a distance she looked like a teenager, a colorful cap adorning long hair that blew in the wind.  (source)
    adorning = decorating
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    Though all the old adornments were long mouldered or destroyed, and though all was befouled and blasted with the comings and goings of the monster, Thorin knew every passage and every turn.  (source)
    adornments = decorations
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    His eyes land on a small, circular pin that adorns her dress.†  (source)
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    Her gentlewomen, like the Nereids, So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings: at the helm A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands That yarely frame the office.†  (source)
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    To my right there was a side table adorned with photographs in frames.  (source)
    adorned = decorated
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    Wide silver bands that mark me as a slave adorn each wrist.†  (source)
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