Example sentences for: decoration

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

  • A dramatic main portal leads into the church, which boasts two inspired elements of decoration: 17th-century azulejos on the walls, and stone pillars like twisted strands of clay, fragile-looking in spite of their obviously solid dimensions.

  • The boat's builders claim Disney requires ridiculously costly and unnecessary guidelines for the ship's structure, and on-board decoration involves hand-painted murals incurring hundreds of hours of work.

  • For those who find it difficult to appreciate mosaics as we usually see them, in fading indecipherable fragments, the beautifully preserved mosaic decoration of Ravenna’s churches, up to 1,500 years old, come as an exciting revelation.

  • Across from the Gran Hotel is a small bakery, the Forn des Teatre, whose modernista decoration graces many a postcard in Palma.

  • In fact, a German art historian rescued this tour de force of early Islamic decoration at the turn of the century by persuading the Sultan of Turkey not to use it as building material for a railway link to Mecca.


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