Sentence examples for decked by from inspiring English sources

"decked by" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to be adorned or decorated by something or someone. Example: The room was decked by colorful balloons and streamers for the birthday party. In this sentence, "decked by" is used to describe how the room was decorated or adorned by the colorful balloons and streamers. It could also be rewritten as "the room was adorned with colorful balloons and streamers for the birthday party."

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(Hildegard Behrens was decked by a stray beam at the Met in 1990).

That the Hudson could have been decked by a floating airport?

Once, Obry scored a rear hit while being decked by a forearm shiver from Kolobkov.

Zim left under a cloud after being decked by (who else?) Pedro Martínez.

With the opposing goaltender sprawled on the ice, decked by an invisible force, as the puck slides into the net.

Then Islanders goalie Rick DiPietro and Penguins goalie Brent Johnson fought; DiPietro was decked by one punch, leaving him with facial fractures and a concussion.

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He regained his feet in the second half with a Concerto in D minor for recorder and flute, whose little Turkish rondo of a finale was positively charming, only to be decked again by Bach's "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 4. No matter, it was all entertaining.

-@DLGarber.

El Hábito, which opened in 1990, is an antiprison -- an anything-goes carnival, decked with eight-by-ten glossies of faded Mexican stars.

It is made up of two 10-by-20-foot 10-by-20-foot 10-by-20-foot 10-by-20-footwhich aroomsparated by a decked conetyard and linked by a glazed corridor.

He could be damned if he dazzles and damned if he doesn't against Chris Algieri, the American last seen being decked six times by Manny Pacquiao.

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