Example sentences for: festooned

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

  • 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 pleasant daze induced on the three-tiered travertine staircase, festooned in spring with pink azaleas, was celebrated by John Keats as a “blissful cloud of summer indolence” before he died here in 1821.

  • It has an 18th-century church, a telephone booth, a cemetery, an old well, and a handful of well-tended, blue-and-white houses festooned with flowers.

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


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