bedecked; bedecking; bedecks
Examples of bedeck in a Sentence
bedecked the house with hundreds of miniature lights for the party
the ladies arrived bedecked in furs
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Corridors are bedecked in vivid wallpaper with oversized flora and animals, real and mythical, and the hotel’s art collection that meets your eye around every corner is a go-for-broke assemblage of everything from old-world oils to ambitious mixed media and 20th-century American photography.
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Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
Diagon Alley is also bedecked, and the Butterbeer is ever-so-warming.
—Bailey Bennett, Travel + Leisure, 16 Jan. 2026
On the morning of Christmas Eve, my maternal grandparents and I put up our own decorations, bedecking our apartment, in the north of the capital, with vintage baubles, tinsel, and seasonal cushions.
—Armando Ledezma, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
In that sense, the fact that the podcaster wife of Trump’s key aide Stephen Miller posted on X a photo of Greenland bedecked in red, white, and blue should be seen as less a joke and more a DEFCON 1 alert for Europe.
—Garrett M. Graff, Wired News, 6 Jan. 2026
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Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
Diagon Alley is also bedecked, and the Butterbeer is ever-so-warming.
—Bailey Bennett, Travel + Leisure, 16 Jan. 2026
On the morning of Christmas Eve, my maternal grandparents and I put up our own decorations, bedecking our apartment, in the north of the capital, with vintage baubles, tinsel, and seasonal cushions.
—Armando Ledezma, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
In that sense, the fact that the podcaster wife of Trump’s key aide Stephen Miller posted on X a photo of Greenland bedecked in red, white, and blue should be seen as less a joke and more a DEFCON 1 alert for Europe.
—Garrett M. Graff, Wired News, 6 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for bedeck
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“Bedeck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bedeck. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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bedeck
verb
be·deck
bi-ˈdek 
: to dress up with showy things
bedecked in furs and jewels
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