Adorn has 2 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | I like to adorn my room with flowers. | |
| 2. | Man adorns the place, the place doesn't adorn the man. | |
| 3. | The violets adorn my kitchen windows. | |
| 4. | Adorn thyself with simplicity. | |
| 5. | You have dragged from the altar a virgin whom Cupid had reserved to adorn a tale of love. | |
| 6. | A grove stood in the city, rich in shade, / where storm-tost Tyrians, past the perilous brine, / dug from the ground, by royal Juno's aid, / a war-steed's head, to far-off days a sign / that wealth and prowess should adorn the line. | |
| 7. | I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an arm-chair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V. R. done in bullet-pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it. | |
| 8. | The girls adorn their hair with garlands of freshly cut flowers. | |
| 9. | "Come now, let me adorn you like your other sisters!" and she put a wreath of white lilies round her hair. | |
| 10. | And I asked her, and said: Whose daughter art thou? And she answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Nachor, whom Melcha bore to him. So I put earrings on her to adorn her face, and I put bracelets on her hands. |