Words similar to adorn
Example sentences for: adorn
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In the first three cases were diamond brooches made to adorn the spacious dresses of the belle époque , gleaming leaf-and-flower compositions that could sweep across a whole décolletage from shoulder to shoulder, or smaller ornaments festooned with graceful diamond swags and dripping with pendant diamond drops.
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).
Next there are the semilegit crossovers between country and rock or folk--Wilco, the Old 97's, Son Volt, Iris DeMent--who adorn themselves in the trappings of country but use a studied, shambling rawness to appeal to rock fans.
The Septuagint translates qaran , in the passage of Exodus 34:29, with a Greek verb used in the New Testament to mean: “to praise, extol, magnify, celebrate; to honor, do honor to, hold in honor; to make glorious, adorn with lustre, clothe with splendor; to make renowned, render illustrious, i.e., to cause the dignity and worth of some person or thing to become manifest and acknowledged; to exalt to a glorious rank or condition.
A dazzling array of hereditary jewels might occasionally adorn Queen Elizabeth, but other rich women never appear in diamond tiaras.