How do you use Festooned in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Festooned meaning
Decorated with a string of lights, flowers, or paper hung in a curve between two points. It can also be used more broadly to describe a place that is richly decorated or covered in something, especially for a special occasion.
Using Festooned
- The main meaning on this page is: Decorated with a string of lights, flowers, or paper hung in a curve between two points. It can also be used more broadly to describe a place that is richly decorated or covered in something, especially for a special occasion.
- In the example corpus, festooned often appears in combinations such as: festooned with, are festooned, was festooned.
Context around Festooned
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Festooned
- In this selection, "festooned" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, period, bagpipes, logo, aubergines, ubiquitously and dive stand out and add context to how "festooned" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all fake festooned with glittery and back is festooned with inputs. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "festooned" sits close to words such as abdelaziz, absolutist and accrual, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with festooned
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
She rocked a bra top festooned with rows of tiny jingle bells. (12 words)
Supporters honked horns and cheered as they drove vehicles festooned with balloons and signs. (14 words)
He carries it like a mascot and makes speeches against a backdrop of festooned aubergines. (15 words)
The zoo was festooned with candles and photos of the dead apes on Thursday, with locals telling television stations how affected they had been by the deaths of the animals, who included Massa, a 48-year-old male gorilla. (39 words)
Three years earlier, lamp posts and trees near the Fulham home he shared with Christina were mysteriously festooned with pink notices saying he 'has not only cheated on his wife, he has now cheated on his lover'. (37 words)
And if you went inside, I bet you would find a lopsided loblolly, hung with lights that didn’t match, festooned with homemade ornaments, and topped off with a star created from aluminum foil, double strength. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Cathedral Square until January 7An open air 'real ice' ice rink decorated to celebrate the Christmas period, festooned with twinkling lights, seasonal songs and the sweet smell of gingerbread in the air.
For outdoor pleasure, they festooned the large balcony in lights and set a fire pit in the sand out front.
You stop on a tree branch to rest your tiny wings, but the branches are festooned with sticky white fibers that don’t occur in nature.
A lone piper, stands outside Waverley Station, his bagpipes festooned with a single string of multi-coloured lights.
He carries it like a mascot and makes speeches against a backdrop of festooned aubergines.
Just seeing the Big Ten logo festooned ubiquitously in the Rose Bowl for a regular season game was a shock to the system.
Their first business customer was Snake and Jake’s Christmas Club Lounge, a ramshackle, light-festooned dive bar close to the Tulane campus.
Three years earlier, lamp posts and trees near the Fulham home he shared with Christina were mysteriously festooned with pink notices saying he 'has not only cheated on his wife, he has now cheated on his lover'.
And if you went inside, I bet you would find a lopsided loblolly, hung with lights that didn’t match, festooned with homemade ornaments, and topped off with a star created from aluminum foil, double strength.
Asymmetric drapes, fluid capes, camp sunglasses, and military caps, all festooned with make-believe badges, braids, and epaulettes: these became the modern military regalia for those who never did enlist.
For the duration of the 30-minute podcast, the couple huddled together on a white two-seater circular sofa festooned with large cushions.
Innumerable meetings were held there, Hauser recalled, and the building is still festooned with crafty merit badge-earning projects from the ages.
Naomi Campbell arrived at the Burberry show wearing a coat that combined black leather, snakeskin and pony (hopefully all fake) festooned with glittery buttons, an orgy of excess.
She rocked a bra top festooned with rows of tiny jingle bells.
Supporters honked horns and cheered as they drove vehicles festooned with balloons and signs.
The finale of his spring/summer collection, shown in New York recently, featured, as the last word in Las Vegas theatricality, a wearable roulette dial festooned with feathers and a thousand lights.
The zoo was festooned with candles and photos of the dead apes on Thursday, with locals telling television stations how affected they had been by the deaths of the animals, who included Massa, a 48-year-old male gorilla.
However, the focal point of her costume was definitely her insanely long and thick wig, which was festooned with colorful flowers.
Supporters in London, meanwhile, have festooned their streets in a sea of blue as they get set to cheer on the Spurs in Madrid.
The back is festooned with inputs—optical, USB, Aux—and a switch that lets you toggle between PC and PlayStation 4 on-the-fly.
Common combinations with festooned
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- festooned with 23×
- are festooned 2×
- was festooned 2×
- is festooned 2×