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Ornament
"Ornament" in a Sentence (17 examples)
It is merely an ornament.
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island.
I haven't broken a Christmas ornament in years.
Further elaboration or ornament would only detract from the perfection of its simplicity.
O, how much more does beauty beauteous seem, by that sweet ornament which truth does give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem for that sweet odor which does in it live.
Friends who pay a visit are an ornament to the home.
This is a Christmas tree ornament.
I buy at least one new Christmas tree ornament every year.
The opossum loves to collect small shiny things, like pieces of glass or metal bottle caps, to ornament its "luxurious" nest.
In some regions of the United States, flamingo statues are a popular lawn ornament.
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Dust are our frames; and, gilded dust, our pride / Looks only for a moment whole and sound; / Like that long-buried body of the king / Found lying with his urns and ornaments, / Which at a touch of light, an air of heaven, / Slipt into ashes and was found no more.
I'm a bit short on brain myself; the old bean would appear to have been constructed more for ornament than for use.
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
We will ornament the windows with trim to make the room seem brighter.
After this, perhaps, the next most imposing structure in Liverpool is the railway station; it is built of stone, richly ornamented with thirty-six columns of the Corinthian order.
The editor ornamented his plain writing, making it fancier but less clear.
Not a scene goes by that hasn't been ornamented with a split screen, a freeze frame, a caption, a voice-over, a switch between monochrome and colour, or a change of the aspect radio^([sic – meaning ratio]).
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