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beautifying

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verb

present participle of beautify

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of beautifying
Adjective
The Westminster funds will prioritize several efforts, including hiring a Little Saigon outreach coordinator in City Hall, redeveloping and beautifying storefronts, and working with a landscape architect to assess the needs of public spaces along busy main streets. Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025 This organization cleans parks by picking up trash and beautifying spaces. Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2025 From aiding digestion to reducing fatigue, enhancing mental performance, and beautifying benefits: A wheatgrass shot is really meant to be that girl. Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2025 The pictures are beautiful, but Hujar’s is not a beautifying eye. Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024 The viral beautifying filter uses machine learning technology to edit users’ facial features in photographs and video, sculpting cheekbones, smoothing out skin and brightening eyes, all with unsettling realism. Flo Cornall, CNN, 15 May 2023 Roughly 21% of Americans of any gender have reported using beautifying filters on their photos before posting their images to a social media profile, according to a 2021 Consumer Reports study. Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2023 Since Mayan times, honey has played an important role in wellness in Mexico and is famous for both its beautifying and restorative qualities. Rana Good, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
Verb
National Guard troops have also been tasked with picking up garbage and beautifying the city. Brett Samuels, The Hill, 12 Sep. 2025 The Westminster funds will prioritize several efforts, including hiring a Little Saigon outreach coordinator in City Hall, redeveloping and beautifying storefronts, and working with a landscape architect to assess the needs of public spaces along busy main streets. Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025 The spa features biohacking treatments, exclusive beautifying therapies by high-end Hungarian brand Omorovicza, and a series of outdoor baths and infrared saunas. Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025 This organization cleans parks by picking up trash and beautifying spaces. Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2025 The pictures are beautiful, but Hujar’s is not a beautifying eye. Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024 While beautifying the area, the project also aims to provide insights into the impact of urban green space on human health and the environment. Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 2 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beautifying
Adjective
  • For extra drama, the look included a large decorative flower brooch positioned at the center of her neckline.
    WWD Staff, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This decorative duality is apparent throughout, with old-house character and chaos-friendly practicality considered in equal measure.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Host of the dinner, Lauren Santo Domingo, also went strapless in a minimalist column by The Row with a fin of seam allowance decorating the back.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Marta and her friends, twelve women, had spent Saturday night decorating it.
    Mariana Enriquez October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Native ornamental grasses like Little Bluestem () provide both food through their seeds and cover from the elements.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Plant perennials, shrubs, and ornamental trees.
    Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Although a ladder is needed for adorning the tree with ornaments, the tree is pre-lit, so that tangled strands of lights are a thing of Christmas past.
    Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Thug has managed to find a way to push the envelope all these years later with Uy Scuti, adorning a Druski-esque whiteface that reads as a somewhat subversive take on the current moment’s politics.
    Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Beautifying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beautifying. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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