It is easy to embellish the pillars and insert beams in a home but hard to get the huai tree to grow. From LearnThat.org. [Yuan Yeh.]
I just recently lied (though I prefer the word embellish) about my height by an inch. From Wordnik.com. [FREAK-TV: What Do Online Daters Lie About? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
We kind of embellish on that, I guess you could say. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2005] Reference
He pronounced "embellish" with a fancy-pants cadence. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard's Endowed but Columbia's Got the Girls!] Reference
Then, of course, I felt compelled to embellish it. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Woodward: Bibliography: A True Confession] Reference
Green grass and fruit trees embellish the riverside. From Wordnik.com. [Homecoming] Reference
And so if you don't embellish it, it just falls apart. From Wordnik.com. [David Russell: Of Guitars and Pingpong Balls] Reference
Rumor but grows in the telling and strives to embellish. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
This is not to say that the survivors embellish on purpose. From Wordnik.com. [The War In the Words of the Dead] Reference
There were no ladies to embellish the table, and after coffee. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Theatre, or the Forum, which not only embellish, but surprize. From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
I occasionally embellish the truth to make it more interesting. From Wordnik.com. [Russell Bishop: Is There Any Integrity Or Honesty Out There?] Reference
The first specimens we have of an attempt to embellish manuscripts are. From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania in the Middle Ages] Reference
Shimmer Time: Choose one feature to embellish like the eyes, cheeks or lips. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon Perdis: Glitz Tricks: How to Make Glitter Work] Reference
But Beauchamp might have felt the decision also freed him to embellish the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Tall Tales?] Reference
"Real touches are nice," says Comer, so embellish gifts with holly, pine and pine cones. From Wordnik.com. [Gifted Wrapper] Reference
Mary has the most exalted status possible in MY life and she's still got to embellish it. From Wordnik.com. [Love, War & Running For President] Reference
When they try to embellish serious sentences in this way the result is sometimes remarkable. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
But I was surprised Volvo designers chose to embellish the steering wheel with a metal strip. From Wordnik.com. [Road Test: Volvo C70] Reference
The worthy consul did his best to embellish the days of our sojourn with pleasurable episodes. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
At one point, he pulled out blueprints and showed off what he said were plans to embellish Barnes. From Wordnik.com. [Digital Possibilities Inspire Riggio] Reference
She feels she should say something more, embellish, something to convince the woman it's all in her head. From Wordnik.com. [The Cicada's Cry] Reference
She had written: "Come; you will see the most beautiful things in the world, and you will embellish them.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The actors in such scenes were not slow to magnify and embellish their own services at the expense of truth. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
It is only books that were published without illustrations that we are justified in attempting to embellish. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
The mind can even embellish the memory with snippets from actual events, such as people onece seen in a mall. From Wordnik.com. [You Must Remember This] Reference
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