Examples of bunting in a Sentence
Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
Make sure the room the patriotic bunting is stored in is dry and climate-controlled.
—Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Mar. 2024
Every nook and cranny of our favorite northern California town is swagged out with lights, bows, bunting, mistletoe, and, of course, good cheer.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2023
Her blonde curls bob between rows of Ramadan bunting, as the yellow glow of the sun marks the first day of the holy month.
—Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
Five hundred girls from across Missouri arrive to campus amid the red, white and blue bunting and crepe-paper rolls.
—Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
My visit took place on a blustery day when a photograph by a visitor from Arlington, Trista Nealon, captured one of the buntings with its winged feathers delicately swept up by the gusts of wind.
—Richard B. Karel, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024
At the debate, the familiar trappings were present — red, white and blue bunting, lights, cameras, hordes of press, hangers-on and opposition spokespeople, including Gov. Gavin Newsom — but the tension of a nomination up for grabs was notably absent.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
In a bomb shelter festooned with Israeli flags and colorful plastic bunting, children who lost parents in the Hamas attacks on Israel danced, sang and ate jelly donuts, courtesy of a young Californian boy who forged an unlikely bond with the devastated community.
—NBC News, 16 Dec. 2023
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Word History
Noun (1)
Middle English
Noun (2)
perhaps from English dialect bunt (to sift)
Noun (3)
term of endearment in the nursery rhyme "Bye, baby bunting"
Noun (1)
14th century, in the meaning defined above
Noun (2)
1711, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Noun (3)
1922, in the meaning defined above
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Cite this Entry
“Bunting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bunting. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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bunting
1 of 2 noun
bunting
2 of 2 nounNoun
Middle English buntynge "bunting"
Noun
possibly derived from a dialect word bunt "to sift (meal)"
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