How to Use decorated in a Sentence

decorated

adjective
  • The decorated skier suffered back-to-back injuries in the last month.
    — Yi-Jin Yu, ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The decorated soccer played added several snaps of him and Harper embracing one another throughout the years, including an adorable photo of Harper as a toddler with a pacifier in her mouth hugging David.
    — Kayla Grant, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Long overshadowed by his more decorated co-star, Brown is emerging as a legitimate NBA MVP candidate as the season’s halfway mark approaches.
    — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Australian authorities have arrested and charged the country's most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, 47, with five war crime murders allegedly committed during the war in Afghanistan.
    — Elaine Mallon, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The film is based on the true story of Joseph ‘Lupo’ Rulli (Interdonato), a legendary New Jersey boxer plagued with polio before his career peaks, who then rises as a mobster in the Bonanno Crime family, while his older brother Dennis (Stahl) becomes a decorated State Policeman in the same town.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025

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