ornate

Example Sentences

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He knows he will never have room for the tables and chairs and ornate cabinets, but they reminded him of adventure, of possibility, of youth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

The group’s self-titled debut album came out in 1975; at the time, the band had a more ornate sound à la Genesis.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

Inside the ornate former presidential palace, photographs and oral testimony detail the grinding poverty and ingrained corruption of the dictatorship of Cuba's then-military strongman, Fulgencio Batista.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

The attacks are accepted as part of daily life for the city of around one million people, dotted with ornate 19th-century architecture and where luxury cars pass mobile air defence units along the bustling seaside.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

As an American with limited experience outside the United States, I was dazzled by the age of the buildings and marveled at their ornate architecture.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson