furnish someone with something

Examples of furnishing

furnishing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The hall was decorated with furnishings requisitioned from private palaces, as well as the banner of liberty topped by an olive branch.
I'm sure they are more than capable of furnishing their own replies.
Almost all the main furnishings of the cathedral are included.
In set design we can distinguish between the organisation of stage space and the system of topical references (for example, architecture or furnishings).
The obvious result was the partial destruction and the continued alteration of most of the human remains and the grave furnishings.
Curtains, furnishing fabric and rugs are all hand-woven by the matron herself.
Can the representations of psychoanalysis be useful in a theory of value change furnishing the concept of super-ego-revision and the freeing of the ego?
The processes furnishing this link are discussed in the paragraphs that follow.
The author describes his study as an attempt to discover the ways that political values are revealed through a building's furnishings.
Here again the emphasis is on the primordial nature of an individual's experience of their sensory environment in furnishing the ingredients for complex thought.
Only licenses and navigation certificates of the holders are renewed, thereby furnishing an additional policy handle to reduce effort.
Some employers went well beyond their contractual obligations in furnishing their adolescent maids with dowries and other gifts.
Household furnishing manuals recommended this neoclassical furnishing as an elegant, more comfortable replacement for earlier styles.
Subsequently, the landowner's house and furnishings were seized by his creditors.
Puritans, it was argued, were obsessed with extemporaneous sermons and prayers, and attached no value to the outward furnishings and structures of the church.
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