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Meanings of embellish the story in English

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Usage of embellish the story in English
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He started to embellish the story about drowning, but the main Zelandoni of the Twenty-ninth interrupted and cut him short.
The Land of Painted Caves
2
Don't embellish the story.'
Salem’s Lot
3
The other thing that concerned me was that people were embellishing the story.
The Guardian
4
Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of Charlotte embellished the stories even further.
The Guardian
5
And it didn't do the boy any harm if he embellished the stories a little extra.
The preacher
6
Yes, I suppose I embellished the story in places and perhaps I was a little dramatic, but that hardly matters.
The poison eaters: and other stories
7
Then we knew that "Big Bill" was telling his intimates all about it, embellishing the story as only he could do.
A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" / From the Diary of Number Five of ...
8
Rumor, with her thousand tongues, had been busy, and, as is not unusual on such occasions, embellished the story with innumerable fanciful ornaments.
The Lost Hunter / A Tale of Early Times
9
He had subsequently condescended to partake of a mug of ale in Sir Miles Warrington's butler's room, and there had repeated and embellished the story.
The Virginians
10
"Well," said Phonny, "I think you had better embellish the story, at any rate, for I want it to be interesting."
The Junior Classics, Volume 6: Old-Fashioned Tales
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