- present participle of decorate.
decorating
Example Sentences
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When I dropped my daughter off at a three-day, two-night sports camp this summer, I was stunned to see other parents—one with a ladder—elaborately decorating the front doors of their campers’ rooms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The pregnancy had been far enough along to start getting their 4-year-old daughter excited about decorating a nursery, family-of-four camping trips and what it would mean to become a big sister.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
Department of Veterans Affairs External link, the holiday was established to honor fallen soldiers by decorating their graves with flowers.
From Barron's ● May 25, 2026
She likes to refer to her decorating style as “creatively unhinged.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
I pulled up the cuff of my shirt and displayed the quarter-sized disk of raised flesh decorating the inside of my wrist.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
