ORNAMENTATION in a Sentence
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122 example sentences for ORNAMENTATION, such as:
1. Modesty is the ornament of woman.
2. Truth's best ornament is nakedness.
3. Silence is the best ornament of a woman.
4. The flowers were put on the table for ornament.
5. There is no glass, porch, or ornamentation without.
2. Truth's best ornament is nakedness.
3. Silence is the best ornament of a woman.
4. The flowers were put on the table for ornament.
5. There is no glass, porch, or ornamentation without.
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Meanings and Examples of ORNAMENTATION
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ornamentation
n. something used to beautify
n. the act of adding extraneous decorations to something
Classic Sentence: (101 in 7 pages)
1 You remember I told you I had been struck at the distance by certain attempts at ornamentation, rather remarkable in the ruinous aspect of the place.
2 There is no glass, porch, or ornamentation without.
3 Eight days after they were dressed in san-benitos and their heads ornamented with paper mitres.
4 Candide was at once conducted to a beautiful summer-house, ornamented with a very pretty colonnade of green and gold marble, and with trellises, enclosing parraquets, humming-birds, fly-birds, guinea-hens, and all other rare birds.
5 In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an antique sideboard, painted pink, in water colors.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
6 The door of the dining-room, which, as we have said, opened directly on the cathedral square, had formerly been ornamented with locks and bolts like the door of a prison.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
7 The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old rusty knocker.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
8 At the present day it is a tolerably large town, ornamented all the year through with plaster villas, and on Sundays with beaming bourgeois.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
9 It was this old woman, ornamented with the name of the principal lodger, and in reality intrusted with the functions of portress, who had let him the lodging on Christmas eve.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
10 On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
11 Another spread out over his coat the cross-belt and cartridge-box of a National Guardsman, the cover of the cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: Public Order.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP
12 A fine web, which spread far and wide, and was very black and ornamented with dead flies, formed a wheel on one of the window-panes.
13 I wish, in order to honor our worthy aldermen, you should appear in ceremonial costume, and above all, ornamented with the diamond studs which I gave you on your birthday.
14 This person walked along the terrace, which was ornamented with flowers.
15 After these came the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples: they were all ornamented with hearts.
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1 In the past decade or so, after some hundred and fifty years of neglect, ornamentation of Baroque music has again become widely accepted.
2 Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
3 Modesty is not only and ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
4 The wind such as flower of time, and you become the most beautiful ornament.
5 Truth's best ornament is nakedness.
6 Modesty is the ornament of woman.
7 Silence is the best ornament of a woman.
8 The building relies on clever design rather than on ornament for its impressive effect.
9 Every book and ornament was returned to its rightful place when we had finished painting the room.
10 The building style is plain, with very little ornament.
11 The flowers were put on the table for ornament.
12 There was no superfluous ornament in the room, not one modern piece of furniture, everything looked at once well worn and well saved.
13 It can indeed be fussy, filling with ornament what should be empty space.
14 Our mirth is then indeed an ornament to us when we serve God and honor him with it.
15 A small, glittering ornament, such as a rhinestone or a sequin, applied to fabric or a garment.