festoon
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“It affects us all,” said Hussein, 22, who lives and works near Sparkhill, a largely Muslim neighborhood in Birmingham, where Palestinian flags flutter above shops and festoon a nearby park.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Found materials, including street signage rulers, ornithology illustrations and children’s drawings, festoon the canvas, mingling with hurried chalk annotations and prays of gestural brushwork resembling graffiti.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
Filaments of dust and gas festoon this star-forming region in a new infrared image from MIRI.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2023
Here, millions of butterflies festoon the trees in shuddering layers so thick it’s impossible to see the foliage beneath.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2022
“But I am not a fortune-teller,” he said, letting his head drop into a festoon of towel, and towelling away at his two ears.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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Since early Thursday, BNP backers started gathering in the capital, plastering the streets with banners and festoons bearing images of Rahman.
From Barron's ● Dec. 25, 2025
The whole city has been decorated in readiness for the party: blue and white flags and festoons hang above the narrow streets.
From BBC ● May 4, 2023
AA memorabilia festoons the largest meeting room in Wilson House, a hotel built in the mid-1800s.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 11, 2020
Best wallpaper: The glorious peacock pattern that festoons the walls of Amy Schumer’s character’s apartment in “I Feel Pretty.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2019
It was made of granite for strength and massiveness, but like so many other things in Iofur’s palace, it was decorated with overelaborate swags and festoons of gilt that looked like tinsel on a mountainside.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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In Havana's leafy middle-class Vedado neighborhood, pints at a dollar a pop were flowing at a watch party in a cultural center festooned with a Brazil flag and World Cup bunting.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
A block later I hobbled past the Justice Department, its facade festooned with a giant banner of Trump’s face.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
Lisa Nandy, the Labour culture secretary, is speaking from her Wigan constituency which was proudly festooned with bunting during the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
The first, which he began making in the early 1960s, were mysterious, sinisterly bejeweled boxes, little containers of compressed surrealism festooned with hundreds of shiny straight pins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
Happy tourists walk away festooned in silver and gold, their new jewelry jingling like Christmas bells with every step.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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Now his great-granddaughter is cultivating seed there, and not just from the Clematis that scramble over shrubs, festooning their branches with colorful little bells and stars and, later, the froth of all those seed heads.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
Those included festooning the mansion with flags from the University of Houston, rival of Rice University, where Youngkin played basketball.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2022
Here it is 2021, and NBC Universal’s plan for survival in the streaming age now relies on Peacock, one of the new services festooning your TV app screen like medals on a dictator’s uniform.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2021
In two caves, researchers previously documented tens of thousands of bat bones festooning the floors and walls.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 31, 2017
As they approached, they could see tier upon tier of lights festooning the Mile-High Macllwaine.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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