Example sentences for: adorn

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

  • Outside its doors, the seals of intelligence agencies adorn the walls.

  • To the north of the Parthenon stand the graceful statues of the Porch of the Caryatids, which adorn the southern façade of the Erechtheíon.

  • Ever since, it has been a part of every good girl's duty, heaven help her, to adorn public beaches and neighborhood swimming pools with eye-striking, heart-stopping, skin-baring bathing suits that provided less and less shelter with every decade.

  • Hemingway photos adorn the walls, his seat is on the extreme left of the elegant mahogany bar, and his favorite daiquiri is now referred to as the “Papa Hemingway,” with double rum and no sugar (everyone knows he was an alcoholic; the barmen claim he was also diabetic).

  • Sleek, unbelievably expensive yachts line the quayside, and Bentleys, Porsches, Rolls Royces, and Mercedes adorn the streets.


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