beribboned
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of beribboned
Example Sentences
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As a White House speechwriter in the early 1980s, I sneaked into the East Room and watched President Ronald Reagan hang the beribboned medal around the neck of James Cagney.
From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2021
Jason awkwardly leaves, but first hands Alicia a small, beribboned gold box.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2016
The prince marked his birthday by handing out a host of beribboned decorations, bestowing a barony on one follower and naming one of his sons Prince of the Malvinas and Tierra del Fuego.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 8, 2015
The beribboned former national security officials used that latitude to portray themselves as patriots and their illegal actions as necessary for national survival in a dangerous world.
From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2012
The agent’s photograph of Miranda Bloom had been taken when she was a nine-year-old kid complete with freckles and braces and her hair in beribboned pigtails.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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