Example sentences for: ornamental

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

  • 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.

  • The tiara (that is, a woman's ornamental crown of a more or less crescent shape) is not at all modern, but it is definitely both classical and neoclassical.

  • This "ornamental culture" is like a perpetual twilight of adolescence; it is a thwarted adulthood.

  • The other sort of masculinity she calls "ornamental," and it is just that, the ornaments of cigars/leather chairs/Porsches/babes that festoon the pages of Details , Esquire , and the New York Times "Men's Fashions" supplement.

  • The walls — lined with stone seats thought to have been used by advisers or councilors — would have been decorated with red plaster and an ornamental dado.


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