(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.
Overwrought
Definition:
() of Overwork
(p. p. & a.) Wrought upon excessively; overworked; overexcited.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the students back, parliament in session and that Killers album slowly being revealed as an overwrought dud, what better time for the greatest minds of their generation to go down the pub and invent a new genre?
(2) No one assumes that New Zealand will have an impact in South Africa, yet insouciance is an asset when other sides are so overwrought.
(3) Lost in all of the cyber-Armageddon rhetoric is Sony’s own negligent security practices, which is maybe where some of Hollywood’s own overwrought ire should be pointed, rather than blaming journalists for reporting.
(4) The season premiere, which aired on Sunday, has everything its returning fans demand: shocks and quips and china sauce-boats, and overwrought manners and hats.
(5) One morning we had a text vote for whether or not to play Curtain Call by the Damned, in its full 18 minutes of overwrought gothic glory.
(6) Overwrought tell-all memoirs are liable to elicit this response even from those who are not directly affected.
(7) One of the older ones actually burst into tears, somewhat overwrought by the whole experience.
(8) I, for one, enjoyed the overwrought silliness of series two.
(9) He is overwrought and half-asleep, and so Forster risks giving him purple cravings for "big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science can reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend".
(10) The 34-year-old was as overwrought as any testosterone-maddened youngster but could still have contrived a triumph.
(11) It’s as if too many overwrought, mainly male, pub bores have been allowed to take over what is, never forget, a vote for the whole country’s future.
(12) Should he ever need alternative employment - and, after all, he might - Brown might consider a career writing poems in overwrought Hallmark greetings cards.
(13) The understandable but overwrought attacks on Saif Gaddafi that followed his embrace of his father, clan and regime in Tripoli at the start of the uprising, have made it extremely difficult to pursue a diplomatic track in Libya.
(14) All of which she squares up to with Boudiccan fortitude (overwrought grandma years).
(15) There is a danger for Franzen, that an author who is not a native user of the internet will be exposed in the way in which he writes about it, and there are a few false notes in Purity; an off use of the term “going viral”, a tin-eared reference to Jeff Bezos, and the overwrought phrase “moused and clicked” to describe the activity of industrious interns at their desks.
(16) Whether overwrought or merely unlucky, Liverpool could not capitalise on initial ebullience and fell behind nine minutes from the interval.
(17) In a number of later films, he is often seen trying to direct some overwrought superstar.
(18) It certainly paved the way for two acclaimed debut albums in the trip-hop vein – Portishead's dense and sometimes overwrought Dummy (1994) and Tricky's darkly mesmeric Maxinquaye from 1995 – as well as the more well-mannered beats of acts such as Morcheeba and Zero 7.
(19) For me, it’s just indulging my passion for overwrought choreography, pure performance and cheesy music.
(20) I felt odd: overtired, overwrought, unpleasantly like my brain had been removed and my skull stuffed with something like microwaved aluminium foil, dinted, charred and shorting with sparks.