embellishment

How To Use embellishment In A Sentence

• Motifs used for borders included swags, urns, and bowknots, which can also be found as embellishments on furniture, silver, and other objects made during the period.
• Jefferson famously excised all miracles from his copy of the King James Bible; as a rationalist and a deist, he considered such stories to be needless embellishments.
• The alleged recantation/conversion are embellishments that others have either read into the story or made up for themselves.
• These may not address their Majesties, but they may stare; nor will it be contested that the attentive circular eyes of the humble domestic creatures are an embellishment to Royal pomp and grandeur, such truly as should one day gain for them an inweaving and figurement -- in the place of bees, ermine tufts, and their various present decorations -- upon the august great robes back-flowing and foaming over the gaspy page-boys. The Egoist
• Their wonderful stories did not need embellishment with ridiculous rumour or vile gossip. Times, Sunday Times
• He was a storehouse of anecdotes, too young to detect the whiff of embellishment clinging to them. AMAGANSETT
• Municipal pride, manifested by artistic embellishment without utilitarian purpose, shone out from them.
• There was always going to be a little embellishment of reality. The Sun
• As with the others, it was complicated by numerous irregularities, approximations, and ornate embellishments in the park.
• It was always a great laugh listening to all the young single men on a Monday morning bragging about their weekend exploits with the usual embellishment on one or two stories!