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1. Do you know, you ought to embroider.
2. I am embroidering this picture for my mother.
3. She embroidered silver stars on her blue dress.
4. She embroidered flowers on the front of the dress.
5. Love is a fabric that nature wove and fantasy embroidered.

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embroider
 v.  decorate with needlework; add details to
Classic Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
1  The German gentlemen embroider, I know, but darning hose is another thing and not so pretty.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
2  Do you know, you ought to embroider.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
3  But it is not recorded that, in a single instance, her skill was called in to embroider the white veil which was to cover the pure blushes of a bride.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
4  They ought to learn to be naked and handsome, and to sing in a mass and dance the old group dances, and carve the stools they sit on, and embroider their own emblems.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
5  The walls were covered with tapestry with a forest scene embroidered on it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  There were embroidered hangings on the wall, and inlaid furniture such as she had seen in India stood about the room.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  In one room, which looked like a lady's sitting-room, the hangings were all embroidered velvet, and in a cabinet were about a hundred little elephants made of ivory.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-cornered hat depended a long streaming knot of white and blue ribbons.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast.
9  The count hastily descended, presented himself at the already opened carriage door, and held out his hand to a young woman, completely enveloped in a green silk mantle heavily embroidered with gold.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood.
10  With a slight inclination of the head, Danglars signed to the count to be seated, pointing significantly to a gilded arm-chair, covered with white satin embroidered with gold.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 46. Unlimited Credit.
11  So saying, Haidee arose, and wrapping herself in her burnoose of white cashmire embroidered with pearls and coral, she hastily quitted the box at the moment when the curtain was rising upon the fourth act.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 53. Robert le Diable.
12  The solicitors arrived at this moment and arranged their scrawled papers on the velvet cloth embroidered with gold which covered the table prepared for the signature; it was a gilt table supported on lions' claws.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 96. The Contract.
13  Valentine raised herself in bed, and drew over her chest, which appeared whiter than snow, the embroidered cambric, still moist with the cold dews of delirium, to which were now added those of terror.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 100. The Apparition.
14  He fumbled at the embroidered coverlet, trying to take it from the bed, and lay down stiffly--was instantly asleep.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
15  And there stood the minister, with his hand over his heart; and Hester Prynne, with the embroidered letter glimmering on her bosom; and little Pearl, herself a symbol, and the connecting link between those two.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
Example Sentence:
1  John asked what made her late getting home, and heard Jo embroider her account with tales of runaway horses and rescuing people from a ditch.
2  She embroidered silver stars on her blue dress.
3  She embroidered flowers on the front of the dress.
4  Love is a fabric that nature wove and fantasy embroidered.
5  The collar was embroidered with very small red strawberries.
6  I am embroidering this picture for my mother.