Example Sentences

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While most designers have decorated their rooms with historic pieces, British shirt-maker Turnbull & Asser have unveiled an entirely new collection that captivates Churchill's traditions, sartorial choices, and disposition.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2024

“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

Who are these mothers for whom we have decorated our school room and ourselves with these beautiful flowers?

From Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks by Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph)