Example sentences for: ornaments

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

  • 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.

  • Correspondingly, male consumers are being sold fickle and impossible images of their sexuality and their social honour: fickle because the clothes, face creams, and similar goods now change like women's hemlines, offering no stable sense of self, impossible ornaments because the Porsche and the $10 cigar lie in the realm of fantasy for most men struggling to make ends meet.

  • is probably not aware that brass monkeys were very common household ornaments in England in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

  • She insisted on casual fakes and mixtures of vivid barbaric ornaments along with real pearls.

  • In the first three cases were diamond brooches made to adorn the spacious dresses of the belle époque , gleaming leaf-and-flower compositions that could sweep across a whole décolletage from shoulder to shoulder, or smaller ornaments festooned with graceful diamond swags and dripping with pendant diamond drops.


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