Example sentences for: festooned

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

  • Of course, no Chinese lake would be complete without its artificial islands, causeways, and pavilions, several of which serve as teahouses festooned with peach and plum blossoms, orchids or osmanthus, depending on the season.

  • 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 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.

  • 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 plastic package is also embossed with parabolas, and the razor itself is festooned with them.


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