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Bedeck


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sitting behind his flag of St George-bedecked pie and mash stall further along the seafront, owner Tim Kelly, 50, complained of an "awful summer" in terms of business and said that he was tired of receiving promotional letters from Carswell's constituency office.
  • (2) Trump appeared alongside a table bedecked with scores of files which he said represented each of his many assets that were now being separated from him.
  • (3) Black-clad stadholders and fur-bedecked Haarlem merchants brush against the rising middle class, such as a shipbuilder and his wife who commissioned Rembrandt to paint an extraordinary double portrait.
  • (4) WEEKEND GETAWAY Verbier TO CELEBRATE THAT DEAL A bottle of Louis Roederer Cristal champagne costs SFr450 ($490) at Kronenhalle, a venerable Zurich restaurant bedecked with Picasso paintings.
  • (5) He adores her, he covers her in gold and jewels, and she becomes an ancient Egyptian queen, bedecked in precious stuff for an eternity in the tomb.
  • (6) Most people know that skirts in the office should end just on the knee and that jeans bedecked with hardware and rips are not ideal.
  • (7) It's just around the corner from the fortnightly title's Carlisle Street offices, a ramshackle converted townhouse bedecked with dusty old papers and cartoons on the wall, where the identities of its many contributors (between 150 and 200 payments are sent out for each issue) are closely guarded.
  • (8) Walking from the centre of Bilbao, take the Calle Iparraguirre, and it will lead you straight to the entrance of the Guggenheim, guarded by Jeff Koons' flower-bedecked "Puppy", another toy that points to the real role of Frank Gehry's extraordinary structure.
  • (9) They married on 25 June 1999 in a twilight ceremony on board Murdoch's garland-bedecked yacht, the Morning Glory, in New York Harbor.
  • (10) The Empire State Building tweeted that it was bedecked in red, white, and blue for the occasion.
  • (11) We cross the river on hairy high bridges bedecked with streaming prayer scarves, then up through steep woods to a clearing for a first view of 8,848m Everest.
  • (12) Spear-carrying guardsmen, warriors bedecked in chainmail, gleaming golden helmets and even a few fake moustaches thrown in for good measure.
  • (13) In one respect, it is essentially the SNP election manifesto for 2016 - bedecked with attractive policies.
  • (14) Ohio in particular is bedecked with the stars and stripes.
  • (15) The young North Korea leader, Kim Jong-un just over a year in the job, is shown surrounded by attentive medal-bedecked generals.
  • (16) Minutes later Trump walked out to face the world’s media in a ballroom dripping in gold leaf, bedecked with three giant chandeliers and four white cherubs.
  • (17) Recording under her father's nickname for her, GooGoosha, her videos show her as an Arabian Nights fantasy princess bedecked in diamonds as big as the Kremlin against the skyline of Samarkand with a Lamborgini thrown in for good measure.
  • (18) Now the town’s giant concrete Ouagadougou conference centre is bedecked with black flags.
  • (19) Another 7,000MW of solar is out for tender across the country and the rooftops of Delhi are to be bedecked with panels under a new scheme.
  • (20) The 26-year-old woman who comes to work in a cropped T-shirt bedecked with a slogan about how much she likes to party all night will likely cause some consternation to the boss in his three-piece suit.

Deck


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cover; to overspread.
  • (v. t.) To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
  • (v.) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
  • (v.) The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat.
  • (v.) The roof of a passenger car.
  • (v.) A pack or set of playing cards.
  • (v.) A heap or store.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When I clambered onto the fishing boat after the last men left, it occurred to me that an armed smuggler might be hiding below deck, waiting to sail the boat back to Libya.
  • (2) She said: "I was out on the deck enjoying the fresh air when I saw a winter jacket in the water.
  • (3) Over on the smaller boat, Mbalo remembers one of the two crew members then descending to the lower decks.
  • (4) They are furnished with raised wooden floors, good beds, small kitchens and even wood-burning stoves; six have front decks.
  • (5) In Streatham, south London, for example, one user is offering her garden for £20 a night – and there are even deck chairs provided.
  • (6) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
  • (7) Altogether 23% of deck officers serving throughout the study and 43% of engine-room ratings had one or more absences.
  • (8) Open daily noon-1am The Hudson Bar Facebook Twitter Pinterest Idiosyncratically decked out in antique bric-a-brac, this busy, multistorey cafe-bar and music venue has one of Belfast’s most comprehensive craft beer ranges.
  • (9) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
  • (10) Christina was killed in a random attack on the top deck of a bus in Birmingham as she travelled to school.
  • (11) If ergonomic adaptation of the flight deck is impossible, anthropometric limits for pilot selection have to be employed.
  • (12) Thus, with the qualifications that college students were tested instead of pilots and that they performed monocular laboratory tasks imstead of binocular flight-deck task, it is concluded that 24-h rhythms in accommodation responses need not be considered in setting visual standards for flight-deck task.
  • (13) Use of the various areas of the pens was determined during a 24-h observation and by a videotape recording of the double-decked pens during the daylight hours.
  • (14) They are stunned beside their tank, a few seconds out of the water, rather than hauled out of the sea by net to die on a trawler deck.
  • (15) "With those stakes, the response must be all hands on deck.
  • (16) Decked in red shirts, the handful of supporters – mostly relatives – have tried to keep up the pressure with daily protests.
  • (17) Or it takes her much longer to shuffle the deck of cards than you thought."
  • (18) They pushed us aside and ordered us to lie flat out on the deck.
  • (19) The triple-decked and sequentially produced components of the mammillary system may arise from separate neuroepithelial sites.
  • (20) Its giant playing area for handball and volleyball is now decked out with campbeds.

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