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garlanded

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verb

past tense of garland

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for garlanded
Adjective
  • In the face-cream advertisement, M remained wreathed in the pink flowers of spring.
    Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In addition to keeping you warm and cozy through the fall and winter, the blanket can also double as decor when draped across the end of a bed or a sectional.
    Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Nearby balconies were draped with black ribbons.
    D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Also worth pointing out: Antonio is making a fringed cropped jacket and miniskirt out of pearly faux leather, and Christian very gently suggests that the look is basic, it’s been done.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Selected for larger fringed blooms, sturdy upright stems, improved disease resistance, and a good branching habit, 'Real Goldcup' produces an abundance of bright yellow flowers with a golden eye.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Goodwood implements a rule where competitors must run their cars on fuel that is at least 70 percent sustainable content, helping to ensure the event’s carbon footprint is reduced, while accommodating the specific needs of historic, and sometimes highly-strung, race cars.
    Alistair Charlton, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Tacketts began talks with the TV show Unsolved Mysteries, though the program strung the family along for years and ultimately never featured their son’s story.
    Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • During the trial, after Cardi took the stand to deliver her testimony, several of her impassioned exchanges with the plaintiff's lawyer, Ron Rosen Janfaza, went viral due to her unfiltered, expletive-laced responses and animated expressions, including eye rolls and shrugs.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Nearby, along an entrance to Highway 101, a separate barrier was tagged with an expletive-laced anti-Israel message referencing the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, along with additional swastikas scattered throughout the area.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Now supposedly dying from some terminal illness, Julian has gone total hermit mode inside of his cluttered London apartment, where the walls are festooned with the relics of his success and the backrooms are a junk pile of painful memories.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The great tree is festooned with receptors and wires.
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The attendants’ mint green uniforms, shaped like the traditional Vietnamese national costume, áo dài, with embroidered lining said to be inspired by the railway tracks, accentuated the air of a bygone era.
    Anna Haines, AFAR Media, 26 Aug. 2025
  • There are options for embroidered or printed basketball jerseys.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The machine consisted of a wheel mounted to the middle of a wall and a long elastic band.
    Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • His decision to step back in came as Tesla’s sales slowed and competition mounted.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Garlanded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garlanded. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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