Example sentences for: decorative

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

  • Look out too for decorative yarmulkes (skull caps) and some creative uses of the Star of David.

  • In a factory setting, lockstitch machines are used for the decorative stitching that is necessary whenever the undersurface of a garment piece will be seen during normal wear, such as in the collar and cuffs of a dress shirt.

  • While men’s dress shirts are normally sewn with white thread, regardless of the fabric color, most apparel items use a thread color to match or contrast in a decorative way with the cloth.

  • The Chinese, who invented paper, are thought to have devised the decorative art of paper cutting nearly 2,000 years ago.

  • Soon erstwhile Photo-Secessionists were chafing under the harness, but Strand immediately took to the more conservative elements, and between 1911 and 1913 he produced appropriately languid views of shimmering water; decorative sheep; and unfocused, mildly erotic light effects.


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