Sentence examples for for ornaments from inspiring English sources

But they are good for ornaments, desk accessories, storing small treasures etc.

"The firm reckons customers will increasingly use them for ornaments, tchotchkes and the odd coffee-table tome — anything, that is, except books that are actually read".

These shells, because of their bright colours, rich variety of shapes and designs, and abundance along seashores, have long been used for ornaments, tools, and coins.

With short, deep-green needles and tiered branches nicely spaced for ornaments, it has the same Brothers Grimm quality as the balsam fir.

Comparable to the use of "shorthand" signs for ornaments is the system of placing arabic numerals beneath a bass line in keyboard music of the 17th and 18th centuries.

The technological base of this elaborate institutional structure seems weak by western European standards, since the primary technology (i.e., the tools used to manufacture other technology) was based on chipped and ground stone, metal being reserved primarily for ornaments.

Of course, the ornament-for-ornament's-sake mind-set of the 1980s already has a name or two.

It is not ornamental, but then it is not intended for ornament".

Variegated, yellow-fruited, and white-fruited varieties of the common myrtle are cultivated for ornament.

The zest for ornament may be genetic, to judge from Ms. Iannone's own paintings.

Carnelian, jasper, nephrite, obsidian, and meerschaum were all used for ornament.