Example sentences for: festooned

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

  • In the first three cases were diamond brooches made to adorn the spacious dresses of the belle époque , gleaming leaf-and-flower compositions that could sweep across a whole décolletage from shoulder to shoulder, or smaller ornaments festooned with graceful diamond swags and dripping with pendant diamond drops.

  • The sexes still lead separate lives, with the women in the home, chatting across balconies festooned with washing or sitting on shady street corners.

  • The island’s main town, Dunmore Town, is a cluster of narrow streets lined by clapboard houses festooned with bougainvillea; handsome roosters strut here and there in the undergrowth.

  • The Washington Post , for the second day in a row, gives the top of the paper to something else--today to the horrors of North Korea's famine--and tucks impeachment just underneath, but festooned by the front's boldest headline type.

  • She wears fishnet stockings and a teddy festooned with baby doll heads and holds a whip.


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