garland
noun
a wreath or festoon of flowers, leaves, or other material, worn for ornament or as an honor or hung on something as a decoration.
garlanded
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past participleof garland.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof garland.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
garlandnouna wreath or festoon of flowers, leaves, or other material, worn for ornament or as an honor or hung on something as a decoration.
Example Sentences
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She hit the buzzer at the first high chain-link fence, which was garlanded with a spool of razor wire atop.
From Slate ● May 2, 2025
Boy wonder Ingebrigtsen, a year after winning gold in an Olympic record in Tokyo, arrived at the 2022 Worlds in Eugene expecting to be garlanded with gold again.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024
They had been released in 2022, when they were garlanded with flowers by their families and a lawmaker from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
They have the pulpy verve of Harlem’s crime fiction godfather, Chester Himes, combined with the literary heft of Whitehead’s more garlanded novels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
In the dark inner chamber the God and Goddess were seated on their thrones, freshly anointed and garlanded with flowers.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
