Example sentences for: festooned

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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


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