Example sentences for: embroidered

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

  • Women wove blankets and embroidered colchas (blankets).

  • If rugged textiles don’t appeal, then you’ll also find beautiful embroidered items such as cotton and linen tablecloths and napkins.

  • If you’re used to machine-made, mass-produced embroidered items, you may be in for sticker shock: a full set of meticulously detailed table linens can take up to two years to make, so prices aren’t cheap (although, measured as a reflection of someone’s salary for that length of time, they really are).

  • At last, he entered the room, the saint himself,Moulay Madani, in a white head scarf and caftanThe fading blue of a map's Moroccan coastline,Its hem embroidered with geometric ports of call.A rugged sixty, with a longshoreman's jaw,A courtier's guile, and a statesman's earnest pauses,He first explained the crescent dagger he fingeredHad been made two centuries ago by a clever Jew.Then he squinted for my reaction.

  • The six men appeared at court wearing tunics with 'Bring Back Oliver Cromwell' embroidered on the front.


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