Example sentences for: adorned

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

  • 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.

  • Along the way, he produced a staggering number of images that have remained lodged in media memory and adorned generations of dorm-room walls: Dovima and the elephants, Nastassja Kinski and the snake, Simon and Garfunkel as Gertrude and Alice (on the cover of their breakthrough album Bookends ), Barbra Streisand chewing on a daffodil, and Joan Baez blowin' in the wind.

  • Precedents to the horn book (pp. 59,76) are the approximately 300 sometimes waxed or white-washed wooden tablets preserving children's school exercises (3rd c. BCE-9th c. CE), many of the later ones likewise adorned by a cross.

  • "This was Golden Age stuff--a reminder that not all greatness lies in the past, that not all the best performances are contained on crackly old recordings adorned with sepia photographs," says the Weekly Standard 's Jay Nordlinger.

  • 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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