How to Use adornment in a Sentence

adornment

noun
  • The entrance to the building has little adornment.
  • Her room doesn't have any unnecessary adornments.
  • The tone of the book, too, is emptied, the prose scraped clean of adornment.
    — Megan Evershed, The New Republic, 9 July 2020
  • Once the adornments have been removed from your tree, remove the stand from the tree.
    — Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The mark of lipstick becomes an adornment on the flesh.
    — Chris Triunfo, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • An adornment built of rags, a corruption, a tin box in the craw of a doll.
    — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Opt for tiny pearl eye adornments the way Storm Reid did for her 2021 Met Gala look.
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Salam says it’s also in adornment for those who get to see you in that way.
    — Jailynn Taylor, Essence, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The adornment included Mason's name with the Star of David in the center and the date at the bottom.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The list goes on and on, but self-care and adornment around the world makes all the jet lag and hours traveling so worth it.
    — Priya Rao, The Cut, 22 June 2017
  • Yes, an adornment to society, a man who added to the gaiety of life.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 July 2021
  • The noisy adornments were far from a surprise for the newlyweds, who live in Austin, Texas.
    — Alix Strauss, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • Which parts of the ear are getting the most adoration through adornment right now?
    — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Here are some of the quaint, quirky, creative and humorous adornments not to be missed.
    — Daily Pilot Staff, Daily Pilot, 15 Dec. 2017
  • But there are also other adornments throughout that add a bit of flair to the space.
    — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 25 Apr. 2024
  • And somehow, under all the adornments, the fries stay crisp, immutable.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The only adornment was some foam for soundproofing on the walls.
    — Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2021
  • As such, they were viewed as adornments through the 19th century.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2016
  • In a lovely red shade with an adorable bow adornment, this is the perfect pop of color.
    — Kirsten Chanel Webber, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
  • For this go-around, however, Pelosi nixed the adornment.
    — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Jan. 2021
  • A lot of her work explores the idea of adornment as a metaphor for community.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2024
  • Trump has brought back many of the artwork and adornments that appeared in the Oval Office during his first term.
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Forms of adornment and their social significance change by the era, the decade, the season.
    — New York Times, 28 June 2022
  • If designs aren’t your thing, there are plenty of picks without adornments on the shaft or toe.
    — Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2023
  • In other words, which parts of the ear are getting the most adoration through adornment right now?
    — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 31 May 2022
  • Mills swirls chocolate icing on the body of the nail then, then dots each nail with a variety of pearl-like adornments.
    — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 6 Dec. 2016
  • Few pieces show the way the Windsors use jewelry as more than adornment better than the Lover’s Knot tiara.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Each braid forms a circle on top of her head and has tiny red adornment, carefully spaced out.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Spring fashion’s wild new shapes and bold adornments extend from head to toe in striking hues.
    — Naguel Rivero Ian Bradley, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
  • His aim with Happy Cones, which opened in 2015, was to celebrate the dessert in its purest form, without dozens of adornments.
    — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 20 July 2023

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