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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
  • Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell Brown, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce have all been draped in the saltire as individual Olympic champions, in addition to two men’s and two women’s titles in the 4x100m relays.
    Liam Tharme, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Keleigh, 32, wore a dreamy light pink Monique Lhuillier gown with a low-plunging back that draped to the floor and pooled around her feet.
    Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • At the final night of the Cowboy Carter Tour at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium, Beyoncé had quite a few tricks up her fringed sleeve.
    Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 29 July 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • All of the workers who are playing the elves have either been killed in horrible ways or beheaded, and their heads are used as tree toppers, and their intestines are strung on the Christmas trees.
    Simon Thompson, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 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
  • Whitefish salad prickling with chile and festooned with great tufts of cilantro.
    Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • That firmament is all the more magnificent when it is festooned with colorful ribbons of light, which can happen as many as 200 nights per year.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 19 Aug. 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
  • Frustrations over burden-sharing mounted, with Defense Secretaries from Donald Rumsfeld to Robert Gates warning that NATO risked irrelevance if Europe did not invest more in defense.
    Kay Bailey Hutchison, Time, 1 Sep. 2025
  • From pots, set into the waists, tendrils and leaves stretched up, while climbing ropes, woven through the belt loops and mounted on a wooden wall display, offered the illusion of a rappelling plant person.
    Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
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“Garlanded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garlanded. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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