Sentence example with the word 'embroider'

embroider

adorn, build up, distend, enrich, garnish, magnify, overdraw, prank, refurbish, strain, warp

Definition v. decorate with needlework

Last update: July 5, 2015


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But in the works edited by Montholon and Las Cases, where the political aim constantly obtrudes itself, the emperor is made again and again to embroider on the theme that he had always been the true champion of ordered freedom.   [verb]

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One might expect to see Buddha squatting on the embroidered counterpane--the work of half a lifetime.   [verb]

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The under-robe was of soft sea-green bombyx silk, with a broad border, delicately embroidered, of a garland of roses and buds.   [verb]

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There lay Dada's embroidered dress.   [verb]

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"And I can weave particularly well, and embroider with gold-thread."   [verb]

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Sails of purple embroidered silk bore the vessels over the smooth tide.   [verb]

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Sirona nodded, sat down, and unfastened the prettily embroidered band from the dog's neck, saying half to herself, and half to Paulus, "My little Agnes worked this collar."   [verb]

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This rider, beneath whose weight the powerful steed trembled and panted, wore a vesture of scarlet and white, thickly embroidered with eagles and falcons in silver.   [verb]

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A piece of scarlet embroidered cloth, called the snood, confined her hair, which fell over it in a profusion of rich dark curls.   [verb]

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The reader of fashion will please to fill up the costume with an embroidered waistcoat of purple velvet or silk, and a coat of whatever colour he pleases.   [verb]

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And then thy master-stroke respecting yonder banner--it has passed off with no more respect than two cubits of embroidered silk merited.   [verb]

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