Example Sentences

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Festooned with gargoyles, Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” gets its game on in the sleazoid world of 1930s back-road carnivals.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2021

Festooned with logos and worn with a pair of oversized khakis, this team-issued windbreaker represented a moon-landing moment for lovers of high fashion.

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2018

Photograph: AP Festooned with its ceaseless homages to the dead, Havana can still feel more like a necrocracy than a living dictatorship.

From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2015

Festooned with shaved asparagus and dill, black bass sits atop a zesty, sunset-colored stew of potatoes and chickpeas.

From Washington Post

Festooned like an Austrian queen, she wore a moth-eaten velvet dress and petticoats of yellow taffeta.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende