Example sentences for: decorative

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

  • Mary, Queen of Scots, later occupied apartments here, and there are decorative friezes in the rooms from that time.

  • Besides the works of the 14th-century masters Duccio, Pietro, and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, as well as Simone Martini, see Siena’s 16th-century Mannerists, painting at a time when the Renaissance teetered on the brink of effete decadence: Beccafumi’s dreamy Birth of Mary and a highly decorative Christ at the Column by Sodoma.

  • While men’s dress shirts are normally sewn with white thread, regardless of the fabric color, most apparel items use a thread color to match or contrast in a decorative way with the cloth.

  • Had she been born 20 years earlier, she would have been the decorative spouse who kept the creator satisfied as she gave him a stable home; two decades later, she'd have been Baby Spice with a brain, Courtney Love on speaking terms with her biological father, Paula Abdul as a photographer instead of a choreographer.

  • Room after room is filled with objects from the tombs of this little understood pre-Roman people: shields, weapons, and chariots; exquisite gold and silver jewelry; and decorative ceramic works.


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