Example sentences for: ornamentation

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

  • It is now "one of the grandest and most mind-bendingly ornate theaters in America, an eclectic melange of Art Nouveau and other turn-of-the-century ornamentation and a triumph of the restorer's art," says Time 's Bruce Handy.

  • With Return to Paradise , both men have shed their commercial ornamentation and gone back to their tabloid roots, aiming for stripped-down emotional trajectories and back-against-the-wall dilemmas.

  • Similarly, Bombay furniture (a style combining European forms with Indian ornamentation) provided the metonymic euphemism The Bombay; the Oxford English Dictionary tells us that the name is possibly attributable to the Bombay chair , wherein chamberpots were placed, as it was common in the past to have one's chamberpot concealed in a piece of furniture, which could then be proudly displayed.

  • Maybe that explains Susan Faludi's enigmatic visage on the cover of Newsweek --participating in the ornamentation thing, but knowing better.

  • This layer has similar optical and mechanical properties to the chorion of the medaka, Oryzias latipes, though it lacks the medaka's characteristic filamentous ornamentation.


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