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Scallops and cross-hatches festoon part of the home’s cladding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

This spring, billions of cicadas across the eastern half of the U.S. will emerge from their multiyear slumber to festoon the trees and sing their loud songs.

From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2024

Filaments of dust and gas festoon this star-forming region in a new infrared image from MIRI.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2023

And by plant, I mean play, adorn and festoon the landscape with seasonal compositions that echo colorful detailing on the house.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2021

Here the breeze was fitful and allowed the strings of the parachute to tangle and festoon; and the figure sat, its helmeted head between its knees, held by a complication of lines.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

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

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

The room today, as it has been throughout history, boasts a balcony walkway, walls and ceilings richly decorated in imitation colored marble, mirrors and elaborate festoons of flowers, ribbons, scrolls and shells in stucco.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 17, 2018

Who, exactly, was responsible for all those plaques, shields, festoons and reliefs?

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2015

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

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

Critically huzzahed, festooned with Emmys, the 2023 first season of “Beef” told a story of road rage escalating to warfare and finally winding down to a sort of understanding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 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

The tree swims into view, its trunk festooned with gold.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

You could see it reflected in the diverse faces of the audience, the fashions festooning the lobby, the programs listing the all-star, almost all-Black cast.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2021

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

“The Wake of the Whale” is just as complex as it shows a hurtling railway engine with a decaying cetacean straddling its top and ragged garlands of greenery festooning its cow-catcher.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2016

There were actual balloon arches and twisted garlands of pastel crepe paper festooning the walls.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer