Example sentences for: unadorned

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

  • One of the oldest, tidiest and least ambiguous methods of verbification is to take a noun and put it to work, either by adding a prefix or suffix as in simplify in the paragraph above, or by merely activating an unadorned and unaffixed substantive, as in streamline .

  • "If I've learned one thing in the movie business and the world of politics," he intoned, "it is that the First Amendment--the 45 spare, unadorned words, bleached dry of all ambiguity--is the one clause in the Constitution that guarantees all others.

  • Each shrine is constructed of plain, unadorned Japanese cypress wood, brought especially from the Kiso Mountains in the Central Alps, northeast of Nagoya.

  • This lean, unadorned, high-collared garment in plain fire-engine-red wool contrasts wonderfully with a peach velvet and green satin coat-and-waistcoat men's ensemble from about 1765, its cuffs and vest covered with embroideries, its buttons glittering with paste diamonds.

  • After the Pitti’s riches, the unadorned white façade of the nearby Augustinian church of Santo Spirito (Piazza Santo Spirito) is a sobering antidote.


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