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.

  • (That Richard bears an uncanny resemblance to Anne Heche adds to the frisson .) Zoe doubles as a spokeswoman for the director's aesthetics: American films, she complains, "have too much decoration, too much money"; French films are increasingly impersonal and apolitical.

  • Room 2 is the first of two rooms displaying finds from the Old-Palace period (2000–1700 b.c.), including the earliest examples of fine Kamáresware pottery with its polychrome decoration, found in the ruins at Knossós.

  • The small temple on the left-hand side just before you reach the village center has some of the strangest carved stone decoration in Bali — and some of the most secular, dating from the 1930s.

  • Unlike Judaism and Christianity, Islam has used script for sumptuous decoration of all kinds.


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