Example sentences for: adorned

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The front of the prayer hall is adorned with Arabic inscriptions and ceramic abstractions.

  • The Ministry of the Interior building, adorned by a giant iron sculpture-mural of Che, is where Fidel Castro supposedly punches the clock.

  • As Buddhism gained strength and took on a Chinese character, it inspired the construction of great temples and pagodas adorned with frescoes and statues.


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