Sentence examples for decorate from inspiring English sources

In particular, we want to decorate it with the set of decorations of its children.

Home Depot, an American DIY chain, is retreating from China after trying for years to persuade middle-class Chinese people to decorate their own homes.Home Depot "didn't understand the market for home decoration," says Ben Cavender at China Market Research in Shanghai.

The DUP's HQ looks as well guarded as many military compounds, the murals dating from the Troubles still decorate most street corners and the offices of the Ulster Volunteer Force are still well maintained.

"You have to be a jack of all trades out here," says Sam. "Most people do several jobs: run a cafe, manage holiday lets, farm, decorate … We all help each other.

Atheists would have been far too sensible to decorate the leaping arches with the best examples of stonemasonry that money could buy.

At least two of the pieces of homework are to decorate exercise books.

Paint and brushes were handed out, and several dozen chipped in to decorate the banner with its anti-austerity message.

In Mordovia, women inmates make uniforms for the emergency services and armed forces and decorate matrioshki (nested dolls) and other toys for the tourist industry.

They are paintings to show off at cocktail parties; paintings to decorate PR company offices: paintings to snort coke in front of.

"Am I being ridiculous?" Lou had decided that she was going to decorate her entire flat in Farrow & Ball, a notoriously middle-class brand of paint that sells for something approaching the price of liquid gold.

"I remember it used to be assumed that audiences couldn't function as people; that they wouldn't know how to decorate a Christmas tree.