How to Use unembellished in a Sentence

unembellished

adjective
  • Long lines and unembellished metals make these easy to pair together.
    Daisy Shaw-Ellis, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2020
  • The lines are clean, and the designs are unembellished and minimal.
    Jennifer Cegielski, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2022
  • 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
  • This unembellished, shirtdress version of the little black dress is anything but boring.
    Gena Kaufman, InStyle, 8 Apr. 2026
  • His women and men came out like automatons on his runways and moved like bullets, which was a whole new way of presenting unembellished clothes.
    Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Some of the unembellished spots stand out despite their rudimentary nature.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Pearls as business casual might be a stretch, but unembellished statement collars could work for the average workplace.
    Todd Plummer, WSJ, 16 June 2022
  • Four weeks ago, Meghan married in an unembellished Givenchy haute couture wedding dress in Windsor.
    Fiona Ma | Wwd, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
  • His clean, simple and unembellished delivery was his ticket to the Yesterday role.
    Morgan Enos, Billboard, 9 May 2019
  • But that same day, COPA released the full, unembellished footage, along with other records from the case.
    Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 23 Jan. 2024
  • This isn’t a biopic that idealizes my journey, but an honest portrait—unembellished and unafraid to confront any part of my life, no matter how difficult.
    Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 9 July 2025
  • Kraftwerk’s unembellished techniques escalated the significance of works that feel more apropos now than ever.
    Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Nicholson’s unembellished beauty, as ripe for discovery as a remote landscape, permeates the film as much as Ziegler’s changeling aura.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
  • Understated and unembellished jeans won’t ever lose their luster, but denim with an extra bit of flair is quickly becoming a favorite for the style-obsessed.
    Andrea Bossi, Refinery29, 29 Jan. 2026
  • CharlieBo313’s videos are empty and unembellished, devoid of character and style.
    Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Both details were singled out by critics as too outrageously weird, too obviously Lockwood-like, to be unembellished.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Their 200 plants were thriving but the otherwise unembellished one-bedroom didn’t express much of Griffin’s personal taste.
    Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 18 Sep. 2024
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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 language is spare for Mishima; the narrative is relatively unembellished, almost journalistic.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
  • 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

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