decorate
verb (used with object)
to furnish or adorn with something ornamental or becoming; embellish.
have decorated
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present perfectof decorate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Pearce believed it was one of at least a pair and would have decorated the carriage of someone with enough money to commission "a fancy vehicle".
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026
“They happen to have decorated them weird, and there’s certainly a wackiness about them. But it’s all about keeping them alive.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023
All decorated cookies go onto a table for admiring and people can choose to bring home their own cookies or ones others have decorated.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2022
Similarly, its costumbrismo, or costume paintings, capture the way Mexicans have decorated and dressed, stretching from buttoned-up Spanish gentry to elegant, high-fashion socialites in the 1960s.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
Chairs ringed the desk on which lay various trophies and gadgets such as might have decorated the room of any flight lieutenant.
From A Yankee Flier in Italy by Rutherford George Montgomery
