embroider

Example Sentences

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One day, he wore a yellow Lion’s Club shirt embroidered with the name “Bob” to work.

From New York Times

Each month seems to bring new duplicities and new scandals, lies big and small — the résumés embroidered like Rococo tapestries, the lawmakers endorsing conspiracy theories to boost their careers.

From New York Times

"I thought I'm going to buy a modern dress" and then embroider it with the fern motif of the privy council "as a nod to the past".

From BBC

He painstakingly created the design for the embroidered screen that covered the King as millions watched the service.

From BBC

This last is touchingly visible in the lists of names embroidered throughout his work, primarily people he knew, sometimes with their addresses and occupations.

From New York Times