Example sentences for: ornamentation

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

  • Faludi sets out to discover why men are so resistant to women's advancement but ends up with a sympathetic portrait of the sorry state of American manhood, faulting the culture of "ornamentation" and the economy's removal of men from meaningful jobs.

  • 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.

  • The Qing continued these artistic traditions, adding increasingly rich and dense ornamentation and applying new colors, many of them clashing or gaudy.

  • 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.


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