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.
• But bold and bright adornments aren't only layered over neutral outfits, they're added to bold and bright outfits, too.
  — Angela Law, refinery29.com, 17 May 2024
• The tone of the book, too, is emptied, the prose scraped clean of adornment.
  — Megan Evershed, The New Republic, 9 July 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Liliʻuokalani stands next to the Hawaiian throne, with adornments that speak to her royal status.
  — Kate C. Lemay, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
• At the same time, waist beads can also simply be a form of adornment, like any jewelry.
  — Meghan McCormick, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2021
• This city’s jewelry artisans have been making jewels since 600 B.C., beginning with decorative bronze ornaments that functioned as clothing fasteners— such adornments were sublime brooches.
  — Kyle Roderick, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024