Sample Sentences forembellish (editor-reviewed)
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The dress was elegant to begin with, but she embellished it with lace and tiny pearls along the neckline.embellished = added detail to
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He embellished the tale of his fishing trip, claiming the fish was nearly four feet long.embellished = exaggerated
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The dress was simple in shape but beautifully embellished with beads along the sleeves.embellished = decorated
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The invitation was embellished with gold foil and delicate floral designs.
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Tell me exactly what happened without embellishment.embellishment = exaggeration
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The article embellished the basic facts with emotional quotes and vivid descriptions.embellished = added detail
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Still, all this might be bearable if only the grown-ups weren't in the habit of repeating the stories we hear from Mr. Kleiman, jan or Miep, each time embellishing them with a few details of their own, so that I often have to pinch my arm under the table to keep myself from setting the enthusiastic storyteller on the right track. (source)embellishing = making more interesting by adding to
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We had just heard the story recounted so many times over the years that it was easy to take the details and fold them into our own sparse memories, embellishing here or there to fill in the blanks. (source)embellishing = making something more attractive or interesting by adding to it
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A sword angled elegantly off of his hip, and circling his waist was a broad webbed belt embellished with an enormous metal buckle.† (source)
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He had directed, in great part, the moveable embellishments of the seven chambers, (source)embellishments = things added to make something more attractive or interesting
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"NEMO 1934," he scrawled, no doubt moved by the same impulse that compelled Chris McCandless to inscribe "Alexander Supertramp/May 1992" on the wall of the Sushana bus, an impulse not so different, perhaps, from that which inspired the Anasazi to embellish the rock with their own now-indecipherable symbols.† (source)
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Ralph Myers's story of the crime was pretty far-fetched; his knack for dramatic embellishment made even the most basic allegations unnecessarily complicated.† (source)
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But when telling Augustus Waters, I painted the rosiest possible picture, embellishing the miraculousness of the miracle.† (source)
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I wonder whether we would have loved the weaker, flawed, unembellished version.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unembellished means not and reverses the meaning of embellished. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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To have you as long as possible near me, to hear your eloquent speech,—which embellishes my mind, strengthens my soul, and makes my whole frame capable of great and terrible things, if I should ever be free,—so fills my whole existence, that the despair to which I was just on the point of yielding when I knew you, has no longer any hold over me; and this—this is my fortune—not chimerical, but actual.† (source)
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For the moment, Herschel gave every indication of being a liar, or at least a great embellisher.† (source)
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The black boys called it the White House because that was its official name and it fit and didn't need to be embellished.† (source)
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We have disguises that, perhaps with some embellishments from Tigris's furry stock, could get us safely there.† (source)
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