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 governor has faced allegations of embellishing his military record.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

The young nation was divided and newspapers and pamphlets hammered home the differences between the two men – in many cases embellishing those differences.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2024

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

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