bedeck
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With the magic of a clear glue varnish such as Modge Podge, you can bedeck everything from glassware, votives, pottery, frames, coasters and serving trays to handmade stationery or cards with your dried blossoms.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
So attention seemed merited by a 64-degree day when spring is in the air, fully formed blossoms bedeck the trees, and a weekend awaits us.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2022
Tents have been erected around Obama’s property and chairs and couches bedeck his spacious lawn for the last of the months-long preparations, according to the Mail.
From Fox News ● Aug. 7, 2021
Meaning no disrespect to "The Good Wife," "The Americans," "Top of the Lake," "Scandal" or any of the other dramas on that Metacritic lists, many of which I would bedeck with superlatives myself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2014
Many thighbones he burned on the gods’ altars and many a woven and golden ornament hung to bedeck them, in his satisfaction; he had not thought life held such glory for him.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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Hilberath said her tiny home is not big enough for her Christmas tree which instead bedecks the terrace but she was still grateful for the people who had helped put a roof over her head.
From Reuters ● Dec. 23, 2021
Save for a blip of a scene from “Thriller,” no official footage of music videos that might ignite a mote of nostalgia bedecks its architecture.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2019
Her distinctive crest, two facing T’s that resemble a medieval cross, bedecks ballet flats from Manhasset to Myanmar; her signature caftans billow above thousands of tummies; the vice president’s wife carries one of her handbags.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2011
So meet Don Quixote � in the form of flamboyant Malcolm Bricklin, 35, a Phoenix, Ariz., resident who wears studded denims and bedecks himself with silver-and-turquoise jewelry.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Look at yon carven shield, Above the chantry door, No blazoned pride bedecks its field, But emblems five sprent o'er.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton
That day, the skater -- whose Telegram channel has almost 150,000 subscribers -- posted a photo of herself in a room bedecked with pink-and-white bouquets.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
An exception to this was at the start of July when lampposts between the University of Birmingham and the Edgbaston cricket ground were bedecked with Palestinian flags - they were quickly taken down.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
The coffin, bedecked with flowers, was opened at a pavilion in the cemetery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025
Their bodies were their canvases, which they bedecked in feather boas, tutus, corsets, Victorian petticoats, Edwardian frock coats, wigs, wings, headdresses, ribbons, sequins, rhinestones, satin, face paint and an abundance of glitter.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
The red-and-gold glass doors appeared, and she could see the wreaths and candles that bedecked the massive hall.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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It was a show of tradition as the procession approached the castle, with the bright flag bedecking the late queen’s coffin standing out amid the more somber tones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
“The Abolitionists hoped that bedecking slaves in Union blue and enlisting us in a fight for our own freedom would make men of us,” Etheridge says.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
The magnate hated it, and in 1904, he sold it to Charles Lang Freer, who reassembled it in the States, bedecking it with ceramics from Iran, Japan, China, Syria and Korea.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018
Maxx and other retailers high and low, the masses are swooning over Beckham bedecking our favorite box store.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2017
"Who's not coming?" demands she, the more angrily in that she is growing miserably aware of the brilliant color that is slowly but surely bedecking her cheeks.
From April's Lady A Novel by Hungerford, Margaret Wolfe
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