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Example sentences for: ornament
How can you use “ornament” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Long-range shots of the classic hood ornament, and of the car in profile--the stately rhythms hold.
The Darwin ornament offends because it assumes that all Christians who have a plain fish ornament are know-nothing creationists.
Male skating costume, like male evening dress, is still meant to offset the fantastic extremes of the women's costumes, which run to exposure, asymmetry, and fluttering ornament, just like Ginger Rogers' dancing dresses in the early 1930s.
But there are genuine regionalism lurking in both the written and the spoken language: corinna (an Aboriginal name for the Tasmanian tiger), mariner (a corruption of the Aboriginal merrina for a seashell used as a physical ornament), quoib (an Aboriginal term for a wombat), and wing-wang (again an Aboriginal term, this time for a fiery piece of lighted bark thrown by Aborigines).
Indeed, as the capital ages, its history is increasingly becoming whatever associative past you can conjure up as ornament, reward, or weapon.