Example sentences for: ornate

How can you use “ornate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The museum displays pieces of the ornate decorative pediment that adorned the temples, and dedications to Athena herself found in the inner sanctuary.

  • The strip which is lined with elms and runs down the spine of Commonwealth Avenue is the perfect vantage point on which to stand back and gaze at the ornate Victorian buildings built in a range of styles — French Second Empire, Victorian Gothic, and Renaissance Revival.

  • “Cholos” are considered another group, less financially stable with more modern cars, less ornate, and likely more Mexicano in orientation.

  • Spurling draws our attention to some of his influences: the ornate textiles from the Flanders town where he was raised, paintings by Turner seen on a honeymoon in London, and a Cézanne painting he bought with his family's grocery money.

  • The Lincoln Bedroom, for example, contains none other than Lincoln's own ornate bed (if indeed he ever slept in it; questions have been raised about that, too), the one for which Calvin Coolidge's wife labored two years to make a sufficiently large quilt.


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