Example sentences for: embroidery

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

  • There is a further bit of embroidery to the myth: it is often claimed that F. A. Muhlenberg, Speaker of the House and member of a prominent assimilationist German family, stepped down to cast the deciding vote damning German in the U.S. forever to minority-language status (Muhlenberg's detractors go so far as to assert that his own German was pretty incompetent).

  • Silk and embroidery.

  • Rustic Poland excels at folk art and handicrafts, including hand-carved wooden (usually religious) figures; leather goods from the Tatra mountains; embroidery and lace; hand-painted eggs (especially at Christmas); and colorful naïve art and glass paintings, especially that of Zakopane.

  • The workers here are proudest of the double-faced embroidery, with a different picture on each side.

  • 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.


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