adornment

Example Sentences

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Canaanland is named for the promised land; its Faith Tabernacle can, and often does, hold 50,000 people in a building that resembles an aircraft hangar, its “almost sterile interior” suggesting that “hope is adornment enough.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

A moment where Ruth sees a woman wearing a potato chip clip as a hair adornment captures that atmosphere.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2025

He really was a meaningless adornment, like hood adornment.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2024

“For example, the Targaryen look, it’s sort of brutalist in style, in terms of its adornment and embroidery, it’s more abstract, whereas the folks at Kings Landing are more naturalistic.”

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2024

The only adornment was a bit of lace at the neck and jet buttons down the front.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry