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    Use "embroidery" in a sentence

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    embroidery


    1. embroidery, to carefully add elements to the skin that would enhance her beauty, and


    2. Kev related the events starkly, without any embroidery


    3. She was dressed in a gauzy flowing robe, semi-transparent and tastefully adorned with tiny bits of embroidery


    4. concentrated on her embroidery, sitting on the side of her


    5. The wind was like ice as it passed through her blue woollen cloak and white silk coat and skirt worked with black fox embroidery


    6. She wore a waist-length golden coat of silk with white embroidery, grey woollen trousers, and knee-high white leather boots


    7. She wore a pale blue dress with white embroidery on the sleeves and across the breast, the Blue Water Dragon pin holding the neck of her dark blue woollen cloak


    8. Standing in a pale blue silk gown worked with silver embroidery, the woman heaved for breath at the end of her introduction, the diamond necklace rising and falling within the low-cut neckline that exposed more of her ample bosom than Adem would have considered decent for such times


    9. She wore a blue silk dress worked with silver embroidery across the waist and thighs with a low-cut neckline


    10. The rest of the small crowd in the room were Alit’aren and Ael Tarael, the men in their black coats and the women in bright silks with shimmering embroidery

    11. She had changed into a pale blue silk dress with silver embroidery across the breasts and dark blue slashes across the thighs


    12. Funnily enough, the velvet scroll covers and embroidery were in the same state


    13. She knew a fair bit about these things as Nathan loved and collected old leather bound books, and she’d had to study textiles for her Home Economics degree and as part of the textiles course she’d chosen to specialize in corsetry and embroidery as well as leather work


    14. The embroidery was something she loved to do as a child to keep her mind active and to stop her brothers driving her mad


    15. She had arranged to meet at Keighley’s house where she’d secreted a pale yellow cotton Sari with white embroidery on it


    16. His sense of simplicity did not extend to his own dress; today’s outfit was an ornate tunic with red and gold embroidery


    17. Jennifer and I sat quietly as her mother Mary picked up an embroidery bag


    18. His dark thoughts had swallowed Ursempyre whole, and he lay there on the floor of his chambers upon a carpet with the embroidery of the Castigator, weeping for himself, mourning for the future that would not come, his people that would cease to be


    19. This piece of embroidery was probably suggested by the fact that, after the signing and sealing was completed, Carl had taken the lantern and had walked circumspectly to the little hollow to examine his ant-hill


    20. 24 And Rikayon took about a thousand children, sons and daughters, and clothed them in silk and embroidery, and he set them on horses and sent them to the king by means of his men, and he also took a great quantity of silver and gold and precious stones, and a strong and beautiful horse, as a present for the king, with which he came before the king and bowed down to the Earth before him; and the king, his servants and all the inhabitants of Egypt wondered at the work of Rikayon, and they saw his riches and the present that he had brought to the king

    21. The floor-length, off-the-shoulder gown was simple and yet flowing with intricate floral lace embroidery


    22. 24 And Rikayon took about a thousand children sons and daughters and clothed them in silk and embroidery and he set them on horses and sent them to the king by means of his men and he also took a great quantity of silver and gold and precious stones and a strong and beautiful horse as a present for the king with which he came before the king and bowed down to the Earth before him; and the king his servants and all the inhabitants of Egypt wondered at the work of Rikayon and they saw his riches and the present that he had brought to the king


    23. He wore a gleaming suit of golden armor, plate over mail, with white ceramic accents, and a white cape trimmed in gold embroidery


    24. Along the skirt and along the edges of the split in the front there was the most magnificent dark blue embroidery pattern


    25. On the bodice just under the lace-lined square neckline was an abridged version of the embroidery pattern


    26. My kirtle was also accented with the same dark blue embroidery pattern and pearls


    27. I noticed the embroidery was intricately patterned; it looked like it was handmade


    28. Only those who have exceptional embroidering skills could make such a high-level of embroidery


    29. She said, "I've read these Englisc were noted for what we'd call textile arts—weaving, embroidery, and so forth


    30. of winter to get her grandmother a spool of embroidery thread

    31. The red sari coated with a net of gold embroidery, the exquisite henna patterns on her hands and feet, the elegant jewelry


    32. Rani glided over in her silky, chocolate color sari with light gold embroidery round the borders


    33. and gold embroidery, reclining upon thrones therein


    34. He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebeca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Márquez, and in which Amaranta Úrsula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past


    35. Stories of the heart interspersed with cartoons of Zacharias and Ee Hondree, his fat wife, cookery and embroidery read to the accompaniment of sounds from the roof caused by the expansion of corrugated iron being pounded by the midday sun


    36. Each room panelled in delicate embroidery or fine weave


    37. Soon, Kiara brought Tarana down and Karan just could not take his eyes off the angelic beauty descending down the stairs dressed in an off shoulder light pink gown with snow flakes pattern embroidery


    38. the black embroidery on the side of the tan leather


    39. it was a burgundy vest with brass buttons and fancy embroidery that opened at the top and the


    40. It also had a little thin, flowery embroidery on it

    41. To urge you to strip your life of all this embroidery and let it get the draught of air it needs would be, I know, mere waste of ink


    42. 'Yes, yes, it is a splendid baby,' said Lieschen, brightening, 'and its wardrobe is trimmed throughout with the best Swiss embroidery threaded with beautiful blue ribbons


    43. They couldn't be English I thought, because underneath their black skirts I could see white cotton petticoats with embroidery on them, the kind that England has shed these fifty years, and that is only now to be found in remote and religious parts of abroad, like the more fervent portions of Lutheran Germany


    44. The Gemini motifs were taken from an ancient Egyptian embroidery pattern


    45. The Gemini motifs were taken from an ancient Egyptian embroidery pattern and were set off by gold-gilded walls and silvered ceilings that reflected flickering electric candle-light chandeliers in the central ball room


    46. "We had to try something," Celia said, taking up her embroidery


    47. " She picked up her embroidery and began stitching


    48. I sat beside her and picked up my own embroidery


    49. She resumed her embroidery but stabbed her finger on the first stitch


    50. There, the embroidery on






























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    Synonyms for "embroidery"

    embroidery fancywork embellishment decoration lacework crocheting knitting

    "embroidery" definitions

    elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail


    decorative needlework