Thesaurus / embellish
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
To paint how grimy this metropolis is, “Cyberpunk” relies on the suffering of minorities, particularly women, to embellish the seedy underworld of Night City.
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In more tryouts, I gave into chefly urges to embellish the seasonings, adding, then subtracting, onion powder, garlic powder, fresh garlic and Worcestershire sauce.
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Email security marketing tactics don’t have to be embellished or overly exaggerated to get noticed and be effective.
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Linda Yoshida—arguably Instagram’s most prominent calligrapher, with 19,000 followers—has been sending postcards to representatives since 2017, embellishing them with gorgeous calligraphy and documenting them on her Instagram account.
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Special care was taken to alternate the curves of these shaped tusks in the concurrent rows, while the crown was embellished with a plume or a knob.
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The actors in such scenes were not slow to magnify and embellish their own services at the expense of truth.
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But the use of figures is natural, and at present they are used to embellish discourse and to give it greater vividness and force.
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She takes out the sapphires and arrays them on her person to embellish her charms, but she places them on the table before her.
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That he embellish it, whatever it may be, by his artistic interpretation and execution, is all that we should expect.
DELSARTE SYSTEM OF ORATORYVARIOUS
We travellers hold such an incident no great consequence, though it may serve to embellish the uniform life of Brown's Square.
RED GAUNTLETSIR WALTER SCOTT
WORDS RELATED TO EMBELLISH
- analyze
- catalog
- circumstantiate
- communicate
- delineate
- depict
- describe
- designate
- elaborate
- embellish
- enumerate
- epitomize
- exhibit
- fly speck
- get down to brass tacks
- individualize
- itemize
- lay out
- narrate
- particularize
- portray
- produce
- quote chapter and verse
- recapitulate
- recite
- recount
- rehearse
- relate
- report
- reveal
- set forth
- show
- specialize
- spell out
- spread
- stipulate
- summarize
- sweat details
- tell
- uncover
- analyze
- catalog
- circumstantiate
- communicate
- delineate
- depict
- describe
- designate
- elaborate
- embellish
- enumerate
- epitomize
- exhibit
- fly speck
- get down to brass tacks
- individualize
- itemize
- lay out
- narrate
- particularize
- portray
- produce
- quote chapter and verse
- recapitulate
- recite
- recount
- rehearse
- relate
- report
- reveal
- set forth
- show
- specialize
- spell out
- spread
- stipulate
- summarize
- sweat details
- tell
- uncover
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