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Example sentences for: ornamental

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

It is obvious that we have admitted many, some of which we wanted, and therefore our language is the richer for them, as it would be by importation of bullion: other are rather ornamental than necessary; yet by their admission, the language is become more courtly, and our thoughts are better dressed.
This "ornamental culture" is like a perpetual twilight of adolescence; it is a thwarted adulthood.
The main street, Queen Street, pays tribute to the Anglo-Saxon myth with its clock tower, white clapboard and red-brick houses, the grand Prince of Wales Hotel, tea shops serving buns and buttered scones, and the lovingly restored Niagara Apothecary (1866) displaying old-fashioned medicine jars in walnut cabinets under ornamental crystal gaslights.
Moving outward from the center, one passes from stately, ornamental 16th-century apartment buildings with shuttered windows, wrought-iron balconies, and brick facades to the Baroque palaces of the Bourbons, and later Neo-classical buildings meant to convey authority.
No more does the ornamental male wear his jewelry of self comfortably; the buffed pecs and washboard stomachs portrayed in the Times ' men's section are sources of anxiety rather than pleasure.