ADORNMENT in a Sentence

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65 example sentences for ADORNMENT, such as:

1. She likes to adorn herself with jewels.
2. The young girl adorned herself with jewels.
3. It was a building without any adornment or decoration.
4. Now it was not only shut, but locked, and yesterday's mud still adorned the steps.
5. This small icon indicates that the plastic yard sign they adorn is either recyclable.

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 Meanings and Examples of ADORNMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
adornment
 n.  embellishment; decoration; something that beautifies or adorns; ornament
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  And as that famous great tierce is mystically carved in front, so the whale's vast plaited forehead forms innumerable strange devices for the emblematical adornment of his wondrous tun.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun.
2  Directly in front of the corpse Chingachgook was placed, without arms, paint or adornment of any sort, except the bright blue blazonry of his race, that was indelibly impressed on his naked bosom.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
3  The estate had formerly belonged to a gentleman of opulence and taste, who had bestowed some considerable attention to the adornment of his grounds.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  No graceful little adornment, no fanciful little device, however trivial, anywhere expressed her influence.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
5  The night was fast closing in, when he returned homeward: laden with flowers which he had culled, with peculiar care, for the adornment of the sick chamber.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  Nay, then, wear it, if it suit you better," rejoined he, "A woman must needs follow her own fancy touching the adornment of her person.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
7  They forgot that the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it would still remain piteous and plain.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
8  Their sister Silvia tamed him to her rule, and lavished her care on his adornment, twining his antlers with delicate garlands, and combed his wild coat and washed him in the clear spring.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
9  To examine and arrange these things gave Amy great satisfaction, especially the jewel cases, in which on velvet cushions reposed the ornaments which had adorned a belle forty years ago.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
10  A chanting cherub adorned the cover of the sugar bucket, and attempts to portray Romeo and Juliet supplied kindling for some time.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
11  Now it was not only shut, but locked, and yesterday's mud still adorned the steps.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
12  Among the many pillows that adorned the venerable couch was one, hard, round, covered with prickly horsehair, and furnished with a knobby button at each end.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
13  A stout Frenchman, who knew the Emperor, came to indulge his mania for dancing, and Lady de Jones, a British matron, adorned the scene with her little family of eight.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
14  One of the captivating children, who seem made to be kissed and cuddled, adorned and adored like little goddesses, and produced for general approval on all festive occasions.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
15  About his breast there was a wondrous golden belt adorned in the most marvellous fashion with bears, wild boars, and lions with gleaming eyes; there was also war, battle, and death.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XI
Example Sentence:
1  It was a building without any adornment or decoration.
2  In the womenswear industry, designers can offer panache without absurdity through color, varying hemlines, adornment and more.
3  On close examination, the boy can be seen to have a woven strand of some sort around his left ankle, possibly adornment, spiritual or medicinal.
4  On the surface, the natural landscape is all but barren, clouds drift over a plain adorned by tumbleweed.
5  The young girl adorned herself with jewels.
6  The sapphire engagement ring that now adorns the hand of the Duchess of Cambridge, wasn't custom-made; she selected the diamond-encrusted ring from a jewelry collection catalog.
7  She likes to adorn herself with jewels.
8  Cobham might adorn a diplomatic mission but would surely mismanage a key political post such as that of Canterbury's archbishopric.
9  This small icon indicates that the plastic yard sign they adorn is either recyclable.