Example Sentences

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After blooming, you can remove the faded flower stems to leave a basal cluster of leaves that persists ornamentally through the winter.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2018

For the new tracks with yMusic, the textures of the ensemble instruments – string trio, flute, clarinet, trumpet – are not ornamentally grafted on the music: they are the music.

From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2015

As described in the booklet, the hike also includes a visit to the ornamentally carved Nalaknad Palace, built in 1791 by Veerarajendra, the embattled ruler of Coorg.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2010

To each of his instructors he sent, elaborately done up as a Christmas gift, a large chamber pot with the recipient's name ornamentally inscribed in the bottom.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her idea of the difference between people in society and other people was that it hinged ornamentally upon inexhaustible and scanty knowledge.

From The Mettle of the Pasture by Allen, James Lane