ornament

Example Sentences

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Persuasion, he rightly believed, isn’t an ornament but the heart of republican leadership.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Russian investigators have prevented a giant meteorite fragment being smuggled to Britain disguised as a garden ornament, the Federal Customs Service reported Thursday.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

Most of us have received at least one Christms present that missed the mark - a jumper that doesn't fit, a hideous ornament or a perfume you don't like.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2025

Underwater and forsaken, American homeowners watched as their earth-toned Tuscan kitchens and quirky bits of ornament made their homes slow to move in a glutted market.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2025

“I won’t make as fine an ornament as you, though.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson