How to Use unembellished in a Sentence

unembellished

adjective
  • The lines are clean, and the designs are unembellished and minimal.
    Jennifer Cegielski, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Nureyev’s aim was to set a simple, unembellished performance style against a grandiose world, conveyed in the lavish decor.
    Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Pair your favorite pair of booty-shaping jeans with a T-shirt, button-down, or sweater, and sleek shoes like flats, booties, or unembellished sneakers.
    Jessica Mattern, Woman's Day, 1 May 2017
  • Long lines and unembellished metals make these easy to pair together.
    Daisy Shaw-Ellis, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Four weeks ago, Meghan married in an unembellished Givenchy haute couture wedding dress in Windsor.
    Fiona Ma | Wwd, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
  • The cabinetmakers here were mostly Quakers, so the proportions and scale have an unembellished strength that speaks to you in a different way than a fancy New York side chair would.
    Douglas Brenner, House Beautiful, 5 Feb. 2015
  • CharlieBo313’s videos are empty and unembellished, devoid of character and style.
    Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2020
  • His clean, simple and unembellished delivery was his ticket to the Yesterday role.
    Morgan Enos, Billboard, 9 May 2019
  • At age 34, Kelsey Waldon sings with emotional directness and unembellished simplicity that will reel you in and hold you.
    Barry Mazor, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Pearls as business casual might be a stretch, but unembellished statement collars could work for the average workplace.
    Todd Plummer, WSJ, 16 June 2022
  • A flick of inky feline eyeliner, glimmering metallic lids, and a glossy upside-down heart manicure meant that no detail went unembellished.
    Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2017
  • The classic unembellished mangoneada is perfection: big scoops of housemade mango sorbet, lightly drizzled with chamoy and chile-lime salt, with half a fresh lime juiced directly over it.
    New York Times, 6 June 2022
  • Once again, the prose is as unembellished and direct in impact as her sculptures, and Truitt remained an even-handed witness to her own life, the pleasure of visits from grandchildren running alongside her grief at a friend’s passing.
    Megan O’Grady, The New Yorker, 15 June 2022
  • His spring 2022 collection features clothes that are deliberately simple and unembellished, but to a chic degree, thanks to his streamlined knits and soft, fluid tailoring.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The interior is equally short on frippery, with the emphasis on showing material quality through unembellished metal, wood, and leather.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The accounts are interwoven with Beradt’s sharp, unembellished commentary, which is deepened by her own experience of Nazism and emigration.
    Mireille Juchau, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Legacy and mainstream automakers, desperate to steal sales from Tesla, are mimicking the giant tablet-like screens and unembellished interiors found in every Tesla vehicle.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Widely recognized for its clean, straight lines and unembellished interiors, modern design commonly uses natural materials such as wood, leather, teak and linen.
    Detroit Free Press, 16 Apr. 2018

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