EMBELLISHMENT in a Sentence
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27 example sentences for EMBELLISHMENT, such as:
1. She heard it all under embellishment.
2. The stern was embellished with carvings in red and blue.
3. The door of the old church was embellished with decorations.
4. The mystery has been heightened by embellishment in subsequent retellings.
5. The leather cover of the new dictionary was embellished with gold letters.
2. The stern was embellished with carvings in red and blue.
3. The door of the old church was embellished with decorations.
4. The mystery has been heightened by embellishment in subsequent retellings.
5. The leather cover of the new dictionary was embellished with gold letters.
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Meanings and Examples of EMBELLISHMENT
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embellishment
n. elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail
n. a superfluous ornament
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1 She heard it all under embellishment.
2 Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
Context Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
3 When you talked about notching ears and slitting noses I judged that that was your own embellishment, because white men don't take that sort of revenge.
4 She gazed concernedly at the dusky fingers she held in her own, and also at her dress; which she feared had gained no embellishment from its contact with his.
5 The chisel had made three or four of these attempts at embellishment over his nose, but had given them up without an effort to smooth them off.
6 Some day I'll tell you with embellishments just where and how I stole him and how narrowly I missed getting shot.
7 His words were brief and expressive, conveying all that was meant, and no more; no embellishments, no embroidery, no arabesques.
8 Then Dr. Johnson blandly assured us that education was needful solely for the embellishments of life, and was useless for ordinary vermin.
9 Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks.
10 In the meantime, the forest began to change its hues, losing that lively green which had embellished its arches, in the graver light which is the usual precursor of the close of day.
11 To the north stretched the limpid, and, as it appeared from that dizzy height, the narrow sheet of the "holy lake," indented with numberless bays, embellished by fantastic headlands, and dotted with countless islands.
12 Had it been now a catamount, or even a full-size panther, I would have embellished a performance for you worth regarding.
13 Two or three exquisite paintings of children, in various attitudes, embellished the wall.
14 Among the rest, she converted the pantry into a dressing-room for me; and purchased and embellished a bedstead for my occupation, which looked as like a bookcase in the daytime as a bedstead could.
15 He has occasional employment on the same newspaper, in getting up the facts of dry subjects, to be written about and embellished by more fertile minds.
Example Sentence:
1 The mystery has been heightened by embellishment in subsequent retellings.
2 Most of these recipes are beyond minimalist: they never do in two steps what can be done in one, and they need no embellishment.
3 The stern was embellished with carvings in red and blue.
4 The door of the old church was embellished with decorations.
5 The leather cover of the new dictionary was embellished with gold letters.
6 The costume designer can embellish the leading lady's ball gown with yards and yards of ribbon and lace.