Example sentences for: adorned

How can you use “adorned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You’ll see solicitors (lawyers) walking the alleyways and streets around the building, carrying briefs in hand and adorned by wigs and capes.

  • The Temple and royal palace were adorned with gold and ivory from Africa and with cedar from Lebanon; the beauties and glories of Jerusalem under Solomon have captivated readers of the Bible for almost 3,000 years.

  • Nearby is the immense brick and white-marble Gothic Church of the Frari (full name Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, built by the Franciscans), above all celebrated for the high altar adorned with Titian’s jubilant Assumption of the Virgin.

  • 2 million last month when the museum opened its "Sensation" show, which included a depiction of the Virgin Mary adorned with elephant dung.

  • A second floor loggia is adorned with Jacopo della Quercia’s 15th-century carvings for the city fountain Fonte Gaia (of which a poor 19th-century replica stands in the piazza).


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