Sentence examples for Decoration from inspiring English sources

Fold the fruit into the batter, but save a few berries for decoration.

The other had broken down and was there for decoration only.

The developers have somehow transformed a type of architecture that evolved from a dense urban grain of low-rise courtyards and narrow streets into meaningless wallpaper: an endlessly repeatable pattern for the decoration of standardised slab after standardised slab.

The framework of the show will remain largely identical – tens of thousands of aspiring pop stars will spend months locked in an escalating battle to release a terrible, quickly forgotten faux-aspirational power ballad full of hacky metaphors that sounds as if it was originally written as an elongated Gillette jingle – but the decoration has changed nonetheless.

And the marvellously named Victor Gauntlett, vintage-car driver and pilot, looks gloriously suburban haut-bourgeois, with his study full of The Miracle of Speed symbols in pictures and models, while the room's decoration and furnishings are all Home Counties 1919 in sympathies.

Almost 30 years after being awarded one of France's top cultural honours, Stevie Wonder finally showed up to receive the decoration.

Rationally, a coloured daub with no figures or landscape, nothing to identify and interpret, ought to be meaningless: a decoration at best.

Fra Angelico was a true holy man whose greatest achievement was his decoration of the religious house of San Marco in Florence.

Dominique, a cultured hostess full of energy and enthusiasm, has a flair for decoration, as her paintings, coverings and contemporary and country furniture show.

He had already been garlanded with Order of Merit, Germany's national decoration.

Typewriters as decoration?