Example sentences for: ornaments

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

  • If you wonder what to think of it, Palladio’s modest opinion was that it “ranked among the most noble and most beautiful edifices since ancient times, not only for its grandeur and ornaments, but also its materials” (hard white limestone).

  • In the southern half of the park, the Musée de Québec possesses a first-rate collection of Québécois painting and sculpture, as well as historic furniture, jewelry, and gold and silver church ornaments.

  • Modern vanity is more personal; we no longer want to wear ornaments with that detached eternal look.

  • But the interviews she conducts, as with the Promise Keepers, seem to me more about the ornaments of fatherhood and husband-hood, an inability of American males to find on the tube or at the movies images of how fathers and husbands ought to deal with the complexities of parenting and long-term relationships.

  • 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.


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