Example sentences for: embellishment

How can you use “embellishment” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The only embellishment on its formidable façade is Bernini’s graceful porch, but its piazza is worth the climb for the view over the city and the Vatican.

  • This church served Greek refugees in the 8th century, and the designation in Cosmedin is usually assumed to be connected with the Greek word kosmidion , diminutive of kosmos , meaning `embellishment.

  • She's a good, no-nonsense actress who can disappear into a part and whose beauty needs no Hollywood embellishment.

  • Literary embellishment?

  • In the north, where song was subject to Arabian and Persian influences, it varies from dhrupad, meaning austere and without embellishment, to the more florid khyal, India’s version of bel canto, or thumri, the style of light-hearted, tender love songs.


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