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Example sentences for "festoon"

Lexicographically close words:
festive; festivities; festivity; festliche; festo; festooned; festoons; festum; fetal; fetch
  1. She descended beside him like a softly accompanying white cloud; her dress was of tulle, without a hitch or a puff or a festoon about it.

  2. This will form a festoon from which will hang down like tassels, the ears of white and yellow corn, and if one can find a few red ears so much the better.

  3. For decoration use autumnal grasses, wheat, oats and corn, and festoon strings of them wherever possible.

  4. Bank the fire-place and corners with boughs of autumn leaves, and festoon them in garlands wherever there is a vacant place.

  5. An engraved label; the name is in script and a thin festoon is draped above it.

  6. The plate is enclosed within a frame made of a festoon of oak leaves above, and straight lines below.

  7. A graceful festoon on either side of the crest.

  8. A simple name-label with the motto under the name and a festoon of cloth above it.

  9. In the Andrew Tyler plate, also by Hurd, a grotesque face supports the shield, the lining is elaborately diapered, and a festoon of cloth depends from the lower scrolls of the frame.

  10. The design is completed by a festoon and crossed branches in Ribbon and Wreath style.

  11. The two faces are replaced by urns filled with flowers, and the old cloth festoon is draped below the whole design.

  12. Phillips family, with a festoon of flowers above it, and below it is appended the following statement and exhortation:-- The Trustees of Phillips Academy to whom is committed the distribution of the pious bounty of the late LT.

  13. Through it I passed to a balcony which impends over the canal, and is twined round with plants forming a green festoon springing from two large vases of orange trees placed at each end.

  14. Then go when they do to the festoon and hang on to it.

  15. The cleaner straightened up a little and without a word shuffled slowly across to a place just under the festoon and began to clean the floor there.

  16. In the special quiet that followed the cessation of the song Nuova heard a voice calling loudly from a group of bees near the wax-making festoon at the unfinished end of the comb.

  17. On the floor in this open space were gathered many bees, most of which appeared to be picking up little pieces of the shining, silver-yellowish substance that had broken off from the bees in the festoon above, and fallen to the floor.

  18. Vega glided under steam and sail and a festoon of flags away from the home of the Chukchis.

  19. Here also are tree-ferns, and the small, delicate, climbing ferns which gracefully festoon trunks and boughs.

  20. Entwined round her temples, twisted in careless profusion through the cloud of her flowing hair, wound a festoon of emerald leaves and glowing berries, snatched from some forest bush as she sped lightheartedly amongst the trees.

  21. There was something in his hands--his eyes became fastened upon a trailing festoon of green leaves studded with bright red berries, which flickered from his fingers irresolutely beneath the breeze.

  22. These nets that festoon the plain with regularly wavy marks, they're the trenches.

  23. In some places on the edge of the clusters, the little bright points festoon the gloom like illuminated streamers in a merry-making street.

  24. In the right hand the figure receives the festoon of flowers from Youth, and in the left it supports the frame of the cabinet.

  25. The festoon is carried on to Maturity, which represents the time when sixty years bring him to the period of decline.

  26. In the right hand of the figure is attached a portion of a festoon of carved flowers, which connects it with the other four figures.

  27. A lovely festoon of fruit and foliage is carried through the upper three compartments, caught up with red tassels, while the accessories of carpet, drapery, and hangings are extremely rich and glowing.

  28. Very beautiful too is the decorative festoon of carved flowers round the altar.

  29. Lide Lee was aiding the others to festoon the church.

  30. The next moment Agnes Huntington had curled about his neck in a festoon of affection.

  31. Bill short, robust; its upper outline decurved from the base; cere short, bare; edge of upper mandible with a festoon and a prominent angular process.

  32. Tooth-like process of the bill generally obsolete in old, festoon slight in young birds; tail from three to four inches longer than the wings.

  33. Ah, Beata, what can I give you for this whole Elysium wherewith you entwine and festoon the dark ground of my life, and for your whole, whole heart?

  34. Longing attached itself as a dark flower to the variegated festoon of joy: the Resident Lady gained a new charm by this dark flower also.

  35. Each imbrication encloses two cherubim in the attitude of striking with sparkling flint bars, and in each festoon is a rose and three pomegranates surrounding it.

  36. And on the same ground this Stettin festoon puts off the return of his Lordship, at least the transfer and recognition of the children, till the autumnal season of its reddening.

  37. When autumn comes, we will keep pace with the sun, to lands where the tall palms rise, where gorgeous flowers festoon the rocks, and the face of the deep blue sea lies smiling in the sun.

  38. The folds are part of an extensive system arranged as if in a festoon hanging southwards between Peshawar and Mount Ararat, but with the outer folds looped up at Sibi so as to form the subsidiary festoon of the Suliman and Bugti Hills.

  39. The room, carefully kalsomined, was made gay by the sudden light of a flame of branches in the tall and wide chimney ornamented with a festoon of white calico.

  40. This had been frescoed in pale blue, and all about the wall and even across part of the ceiling had been draped festoon after festoon of fishnet.

  41. In this rosette it should be noticed that beyond the double festoon about the central star appears the same alternation of bud and flower as in the straight border.

  42. In these the design of the ornament is a little more complicated than the festoon on the Khorsabad capital, but the principle is the same and both objects belong to one narrow class.

  43. The root of the Nerium odorum is equally fatal, as is likewise the exquisitely beautiful Gloriosa superba, whose brilliant flowers festoon the jungle in the plains of the low country.

  44. A cup and saucer, with pink festoon border and exotic birds 1 10s.

  45. At first touch of flame to the first festoon of moss, he had taken to his heels.

  46. Up along the festoon shot a tongue of red flame.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "festoon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adorn; arc; bouquet; bow; catenary; caustic; circle; corsage; crook; curl; curve; decorate; drape; drapery; elaborate; ellipse; embellish; embroider; enrich; festoon; flag; flourish; garland; gild; hook; hyperbola; involve; nosegay; ornament; overcharge; overlay; overload; parabola; posy; sinus; spray; string; tracery; varnish; wreath