Example Sentences

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All week behind the scenes, arena staff were decorating Galen Center with March Madness stickers on the front doors and hanging banners up on the railings.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2024

And women in some Confederate states were decorating graves before the war’s end.

From Washington Times • May 26, 2023

Just off Moscow's busy Tverskaya thoroughfare, children supervised by adults were decorating cardboard boxes with glitter, baubles and images of Christmas trees to send messages and letters to troops.

From Reuters • Dec. 26, 2022

In Michigan last year, a crowd of protesters assembled on the lawn of Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, chanting into megaphones as she and her 4-year-old son were decorating their home for Christmas.

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2021

Friends of the couple had built a kind of bower from supple willow branches and now they were decorating it with blossoms and ferns.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry