as in ornamental
serving to add beauty
a necklace of decorative flowers was planted along the path to the cottage
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Recent Examples of decorative
Ackerman Family Farms opens to the public every festival season, offering baby goats for petting and decorative pumpkins for purchase.
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Katherine Laidlaw, HubSpot, 5 Sep. 2025
This year, that plan brought me to Target’s wide range of fall decor, where decorative pillows, throw blankets, wreaths, and more pieces from popular brands like Hearth & Hand by Magnolia and Threshold Designed by Studio McGee start at just $5.
—Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
The new lineup was more decorative than in previous iterations, bringing the amount of craftsmanship and detail to couture level.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
Too many redesigns hide them in decorative layouts, scatter them inconsistently or bury them where users won’t look.
—Goran Paun, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Katherine Laidlaw, HubSpot, 5 Sep. 2025
This year, that plan brought me to Target’s wide range of fall decor, where decorative pillows, throw blankets, wreaths, and more pieces from popular brands like Hearth & Hand by Magnolia and Threshold Designed by Studio McGee start at just $5.
—Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
The new lineup was more decorative than in previous iterations, bringing the amount of craftsmanship and detail to couture level.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
Too many redesigns hide them in decorative layouts, scatter them inconsistently or bury them where users won’t look.
—Goran Paun, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for decorative
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decorative
ornamental
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Add ornamental onions to flower beds and edible onions near tomatoes to keep squirrels away.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
4 Sep. 2025
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Four Petal Flowers Ornamental Textile At the time of restoration, there were no records describing the production process for the ornamental textiles with their pattern of four petal flowers.—
Isabelle Kliger,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Decorative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decorative. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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