embellishing

Example Sentences

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Had the striker gone down, embellishing the level of contact, a VAR review feels like it would have been a certainty.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

The reason is that the sport’s fancy new automated ball-strike system couldn’t function without it—which means that the days of players embellishing their heights for posterity are officially over.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Scarves, a recurring favorite of Chiuri’s, were ubiquitous for fall, and were in the program notes heralded as “protective, enveloping, and embellishing as required” for a free and worldly woman.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2024

However, the comedian’s reputation took a hit last year after a September New Yorker profile accused him of embellishing some details from his stand-up sets, embellishments that he later argued were rooted in “emotional truth.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2024

He simply carried on where Dufay left off, thickening and embellishing the polyphonic choral style that you would have heard almost anywhere across Europe in the later fifteenth century.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall