DECORATE in a Sentence
Learn DECORATE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
124 example sentences for DECORATE, such as:
1. I'll finish the decorations for you.
2. The soldier was decorated for bravery.
3. We decorated the house on a tight budget.
4. The king decorated his official for ability.
5. The bathroom is decorated in green and yellow.
2. The soldier was decorated for bravery.
3. We decorated the house on a tight budget.
4. The king decorated his official for ability.
5. The bathroom is decorated in green and yellow.
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Meanings and Examples of DECORATE
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decorate
v. award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to
v. make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
Classic Sentence: (93 in 7 pages)
1 She would form these very neatly out of pieces of twig, and would then decorate them with a flower or two and walk round them admiring them.
2 The interval had not entirely been bestowed in holding council with his confederates, for De Bracy had found leisure to decorate his person with all the foppery of the times.
3 There was fresh groundsel, too, for Miss Maylie's birds, with which Oliver, who had been studying the subject under the able tuition of the village clerk, would decorate the cages, in the most approved taste.
4 The young man admitted that Laitner was a warm personal friend, who permitted Arobin's name to decorate the firm's letterheads and to appear upon a shingle that graced Perdido Street.
5 Under the masonic aprons and insignia he saw the uniforms and decorations at which they aimed in ordinary life.
6 He narrated that episode so persistently and with so important an air that everyone believed in the merit and usefulness of his deed, and he had obtained two decorations for Austerlitz.
7 A large crowd of militiamen and domestics were moving toward her, and in their midst several men were supporting by the armpits and dragging along a little old man in a uniform and decorations.
8 Then they dressed him in uniform with his decorations and placed his shriveled little body on a table.
9 Prince Vasili, who having obtained a new post and some fresh decorations was particularly proud at this time, seemed to him a pathetic, kindly old man much to be pitied.
10 Remembering what Aunt Pitty had told her about the Elsing finances, she wondered where the money for the satin dress had been obtained and for the refreshments and decorations and musicians too.
11 Even while they were removing their overshoes they were peeping at the new decorations.
12 Monsieur Ratignolle was prepared to take things seriously; the mets, the entre-mets, the service, the decorations, even the people.
13 There were no decorations in the hall this time; but there was quite a crowd upon the platform, and almost every seat in the place was filled.
14 Smiling beatifically, and wearing both his decorations, Napoleon reposed on a bed of straw on the platform, with the money at his side, neatly piled on a china dish from the farmhouse kitchen.
15 She was gazing up too, but not at the decorations.
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1 They've also agreed to decorate their shop windows with slightly bigger manikins.
2 Girls of this school like to quilt small things to decorate their bedrooms.
3 Shoppers are buying red lanterns, scrolls with poetic couplets, paper cuttings and plush snake toys to express their best wishes for the Lunar New Year and decorate their homes.
4 The door of the old church was embellished with decorations.
5 I'll finish the decorations for you.
6 A researcher who claims widespread fraud involving military decorations says he warned Adm.
7 The king decorated his official for ability.
8 The room was decorated with a very artistic touch.
9 We decorated the house on a tight budget.
10 They decorated the wedding car with ribbons and flowers.
11 The bathroom is decorated in green and yellow.
12 We retained the original fireplace when we decorated the room.
13 The soldier was decorated for bravery.
14 The apartment was spacious, in other words, and elegantly decorated, but it wasn't clear anyone actually lived there.
15 In a small room adjoining the cathedral, visitors can see this ornately decorated chalice made by famous European goldsmith.