Sentence examples for the embellishment from inspiring English sources
noun
An unnecessarily added touch, an ornamental addition, a flourish.
- 1811 Reflection had given calmness to her judgment, and sobered her own opinion of Willoughby's deserts
In some respects, this understates the embellishment.
The embellishment quotient was high — but light.
But reality doesn't always need the embellishment of literature.
Mozart himself would have improvised the embellishment in performance.
The embellishment was so out of place it caught the eye.
And when the embellishment came, it was controlled as three different textures of tufts and tulle within one small dress.
Underneath the embellishment, there are stainless-steel tweezers cut at an angle that offers more precision when grooming.
Overseas trade and investment increased domestic wealth, leading to the embellishment of cities. Culture, in turn, produced its own coin.
The only thing that makes these works at all worth looking at is the embellishment added by Ms. Chicago's collaborators.
The embellishment comes from telling it over and over again, letting your brain seek out the funny.
"She wants the glamour, but she wants the flowy dress — so she can move — the sexiness and the embellishment," she said.
