Example sentences for: embellishment

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

  • 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.

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

  • Secretary-General Kofi Annan's triumph in Baghdad underwent further embellishment Wednesday when Le Monde devoted a whole page to a detailed account of the negotiations, attributing a crucial role to Annan's Lanceros de Cohiba cigars.

  • Literary embellishment?

  • No, we're talking about the "self-defining" kind of lie, as Judge Ware himself described it: the biographical embellishment for public consumption.


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