adorn
verb (used with object)
to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments.
adorns
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present tense formof adorn (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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George Yount, whose name adorns Yountville, wrote of seeing 50 or 60 bears one day, and killing five or six of them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Working with the Kastrati family, a large Albanian business owner whose name adorns gas stations around the country, they put together a deal to buy land on the peninsula.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
It was Brown, a Rhode Island blue blood whose name now adorns an Ivy League university, who in 1790 financed Slater’s stolen ideas for a state-of-the-art cotton mill.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
Anything that adorns us daily begins, eventually, to define us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2025
“The first is buried with Papa, the second went to the grave with Mama, and the third adorns my brother’s hand. But I desperately want it for myself.”
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
