Example sentences for: ornamentation

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

  • It has curious and fine carved struts as well as door ornamentation.

  • The church itself is being renovated at present, but even through the tarpaulins you can glimpse its rich Baroque carvings and decorative ornamentation.

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

  • 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.

  • 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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