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Example sentences for "adornments"

Lexicographically close words:
adorne; adorned; adorneth; adorning; adornment; adorns; adoun; adown; adpressed; adrad
  1. On the other hand the dress and adornments of the men were far more brilliant and costly than now.

  2. She said she would sail voluntarily and made ready many treasured adornments as gifts.

  3. Thus Cleopatra, although defeated and captured, was nevertheless glorified, because her adornments repose in our temples and she herself is seen in gold in the shrine of Venus.

  4. The people of the story are many and varied, ranging from Sam Lawson, the village Rip Van Winkle, to the choicest of Old Boston adornments of society.

  5. It accounts for his daily absorption in things of religion, for his democratic zeal, his disregard for the adornments of life, even for his subordination of the sentiment of love to the perpetuation of the race.

  6. These too--all of them such adornments as would have suited a festal hall--were made to be buried forthwith in eternal darkness.

  7. In ancient Greece and Rome the manufacture of garlands and chaplets became quite an art, so great was the estimation in which these adornments were held by these highly-civilised nations.

  8. Such were some of the adornments of the fine ladies of the thirteenth century.

  9. They came to be considered almost essential as adornments for the libraries of princes, of prosperous patricians, and of plodding students, and their mountings were often especially fashioned for the places they were to occupy.

  10. The idea of such adornments may have come down from Greek or Roman days.

  11. Thus, the furnishing a needless variety of food, the conveniences of dwellings, and the adornments of dress, often take a larger portion of time, than is given to any other object.

  12. Her splendid fur cloak had half slipped down from her shoulders; her simple, distinguished toilet stood out in strange relief from the glaring, tumbled, inharmonious, motley evening adornments of the singers.

  13. In modern times the cultivation of these adornments of the face has given rise to not a little discussion in Church circles.

  14. The authorities were not aware that the hirsute adornments of the Orthodox Catholic faith were sacred.

  15. St Jerome pronounced these adornments as unworthy of Christianity.

  16. These hirsute adornments gave offence to the leaders who regularly attended the sessions.

  17. Blameless in her conduct, loving in her charge, and patient in the sufferings she was called upon to endure, she was a pattern of those excellencies which are the adornments of domestic life, and make the hearth happy and contented.

  18. Then Chessun hastened to adjust her bonnet: if ladies sleep in their bonnets, these adornments have a tendency to fall out of the perpendicular.

  19. A woman, you know, though she is the most beautiful creature in the whole of animated nature, can never afford to do without the adornments of dress.

  20. She had never seen natives in their war-trappings before, and now she looked upon the shields and assegais and cow-hair adornments with vivid interest as something novel and picturesque.

  21. Those who had white among their war adornments had removed such, and were indistinguishable from the blackness that enveloped them.

  22. These adornments were sometimes carefully thought out, incorporated into the stated method of delivery, and handed down as traditions.

  23. All were painted, head and shoulders; all wore, bound about the head, adornments meant to strike with beauty or with terror; all had chains of beads.

  24. Three dark forms, long and lithe, destitute of clothing save for the mutya and a few war adornments in the way of cow-hair tufts, or feathers.

  25. The full-sized war-shields and certain personal adornments left no doubt as to their errand being the reverse of a peaceful one, as they poured forward ringing in the scherm on every side.

  26. In the pilgrim's hall of the great hospital at Siena there are two large scenes, wrought in fresco by Domenico, wherein are seen perspectives and other adornments very ingeniously composed.

  27. Donatus, made for a sister of his own, who embroidered very well; and this he is reputed to have done because there was a question of making adornments for the high-altar of the Vescovado.

  28. Thus greatly loving their Province, the Romans gladly poured out their treasure in adding to its natural beauties the adornments of art.

  29. It would seem, however, that these adornments were really made of silk.

  30. Grant that the Eye of Horus, which maketh the adornments of light to be firm upon the forehead of Rā, may deliver my soul for me, and let there be darkness upon your faces, O ye who would hold fast Osiris.

  31. Let the clothed be unclothed, 9 No adornments for the sons of nobles, 10 No circle of gods in the night!

  32. Women are infinitely superior to men in the moral qualities which are the true adornments of humanity.

  33. Reclining shepherds and shepherdesses in Watteau costume, with their dogs and their sheep, formed the adornments of the pedestal.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adornments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.