Sentences with 'adorn'

Example sentences and phrases with the word adorn and other words derived from it.

« Julius II paid Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and many of the other famous works of Renaissance artists adorn the walls and facades of Vatican buildings. »
« These headdresses, from which bands hung on each side, also served to adorn altars and were occasionally used to ornament the victims that were brought for sacrifice. The quality and number of ornaments in each case betrayed the rank of the person, so that it was customary to say, depending on the person concerned, that he was the victim of many infulas. »
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