ORNAMENTAL in a Sentence

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The car passed the ornamental ponds, in which the colliers threw their newspapers, and took the private drive to the house.

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 Meanings and Examples of ORNAMENTAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ornamental
 a.  decorative; any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value
Classic Sentence: (101 in 7 pages)
1  Then my sister sealed them up in a piece of paper, and put them under some dried rose-leaves in an ornamental teapot on the top of a press in the state parlor.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
2  When I came down again, I found Joe and Orlick sweeping up, without any other traces of discomposure than a slit in one of Orlick's nostrils, which was neither expressive nor ornamental.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV
3  So successful a watch and ward had been established over the young lady by this judicious parent, that she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIII
4  Our punch was cooling in an ornamental lake, on whose margin the bower was raised.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXV
5  It had an official look, however, and there was nothing merely ornamental to be seen.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
6  With that he took his trembling hands, which were like the claws of a great bird, out of my hair; and put on a pair of spectacles, not at all ornamental to his inflamed eyes.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
7  Mr. Bounderby sat looking at her, as, with the points of a stiff, sharp pair of scissors, she picked out holes for some inscrutable ornamental purpose, in a piece of cambric.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
8  The car passed the ornamental ponds, in which the colliers threw their newspapers, and took the private drive to the house.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
9  But this is a later stage of King Edward's landscape gardening, the sort that has an ornamental coal-mine on the lawn.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
10  Just below the end of the second, going down, the stone wall on the left terminates in an ornamental pilaster facing towards the Thames.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
11  It came out upon the landing opposite to a second more ornamental stair which came up from the front hall.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
12  The breed is purely ornamental.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  Since she had been brought up to be ornamental, she could hardly blame herself for failing to serve any practical purpose; but the discovery put an end to her consoling sense of universal efficiency.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
14  Here and there, a mildewed jessamine or honeysuckle hung raggedly from some ornamental support, which had been pushed to one side by being used as a horse-post.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  Go and make yourself useful, since you are too big to be ornamental.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  A unique post secondary educational opportunity that blends academic ornamental horticulture studies and practical training at this school.
2  An ornamental plant is a plant that is grown for its decorative qualities, rather than for its commercial or other value.
3  However, ornamental and architectural forms frequently do convey a meaning, which we term symbolism in art.
4  The ornamental ironwork lends a touch of elegance to the house.
5  The stream was dammed up to form ornamental lakes.
6  In the past decade or so, after some hundred and fifty years of neglect, ornamentation of Baroque music has again become widely accepted.
7  Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
8  Modesty is not only and ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
9  The wind such as flower of time, and you become the most beautiful ornament.
10  Truth's best ornament is nakedness.
11  Modesty is the ornament of woman.
12  Silence is the best ornament of a woman.
13  The building relies on clever design rather than on ornament for its impressive effect.
14  Every book and ornament was returned to its rightful place when we had finished painting the room.
15  The building style is plain, with very little ornament.