Example sentences for: ornament

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

  • Bodily ornament originally was undertaken to create the self, to deck the outward being with the inward knowledge that trouble must be taken and nature distorted in careful ways and at personal cost, so as to make forever clear the gulf between a responsible adult and an infant or a beast.

  • Indeed, as the capital ages, its history is increasingly becoming whatever associative past you can conjure up as ornament, reward, or weapon.

  • Today, sober or smoldering brunettes leave their natural roots in place and add blondness to taste, as a patent ornament and sophisticated reference.

  • The architecture of the church built in his name at Assisi contradicted Francis’s humble testament denouncing “temples of great dimension and rich ornament. ”

  • Dingbat , in the printing sense of a typographic ornament [like the open book symbol at the end of this review], was once slang but is now standard English.


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