Sentence examples for Give accent from inspiring English sources

The earliest topiary was probably the simple shaping of dwarf-box edging and the development of cones, columns, and spires of box to give accent to a garden scene.

Comforters give warmth; soft bed pillows and shams with attractive color and exotic prints give accent into your bed.

Small cobblestones or rocks jutting out from beneath spillways can give accent to an otherwise uniform waterfall.

Somehow in the last 20 years, the spectrum of herbal flavors that historically gave accent and complexity to cabernet sauvignons came to be regarded as the equivalent of a curse from the ratings gods, and so the public, too, has come to fear the specter of green.

One is the cappuccino panna cotta — a loose pudding, really — that's given accents that cleverly touch on, and bring together, elements of cappuccino: chocolate-covered espresso beans, a salty chocolate and cinnamon shortbread cookie.

Rather than simply transcribing the original recording, a double string quartet, Mr. Reed employs metric shifts that give new accent to the piece's propulsive quality.

I guess I learned that through Balanchine's work -- how to make big movement to quick music and to give it accents.

The creators of "A Minister's Wife" are aiming for something closer to the original, allowing music to give emotional accents to the story without interrupting the easy flow of the drama with discrete musical sequences.

It can be used to give dark accents to a nearly completed etching, for example, or it can be used first to sketch in lightly on a copperplate the proposed design for a line engraving.

Back upstairs, a Batman called Chris is being given some accent advice by Powell.

But her careful efforts at maintaining the character's British accent give her delivery a studied quality that undercuts the slangy lyrics and offhand melodies of the songs.