Example sentences for: elaborate

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

  • The OED , for example, has very long and elaborate etymologies, some of which might have been superseded (presumably in OED2e ), which means you have to have the latest edition.

  • Look for the elaborate oriental lines of the Mosque of Abu El Abbas on your right.

  • Hartford set the small courtyard on a rise several hundred yards away from the house and created an elaborate garden to lead to the edifice.

  • In Eastern Europe, exhumed bodies have been used as symbols by political parties, as anthropologist Katherine Verdery explains in her forthcoming book, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies in the Postsocialist Transformation . For instance, liberal reform parties have disinterred Communist leaders from their mausoleums while reburying pre-Communist nationalist heroes in elaborate sarcophagi.

  • According to Lance, the Philippine police officer, who after 9/11 offered the much more elaborate account of Murad's statements reported in Lance's book, claims to have passed this added information to U.S. officials.


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