Example sentences for: embroidery

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

  • If you are offered lace or embroidery cheap in the street it was probably made on a machine in the Far East.

  • At Kidathinéon 17 you’ll find the Museum of Greek Folk Art, which offers an interesting collection of embroidery, lace, and numerous liturgical garments.

  • The island is renowned worldwide for exquisite handmade lace and embroidery, well-crafted wicker items, gorgeous flowers, and long-lasting Madeiran wines.

  • A late painting like Christine Lerolle Embroidering (1897), with its complex weave of frames within frames, is a veritable catalog of the craftsmanlike bric-a-brac Renoir admired: the embroidery frame constructed of bamboo; William Morris wallpaper; a Japanese vase; the rough-hewed paintings of Degas and Renoir himself that the connoisseurs are inspecting in the background.

  • Maybe now that sexual ambiguity is recognized as a potent force, we can begin to see men in gold embroidery and sweeping folds of silk.


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