Example sentences for: elaborately

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

  • Hair in historical movies is often the same, never mind the elaborately coiled and oiled evidence of history.

  • The hockey ethos is to be elaborately casual and gruff about competitive achievement: Outstanding performance gets you a little slap on the helmet, a good-natured insult.

  • It is exactly that: a few smudged traces of pencil on an elaborately matted and framed piece of paper.

  • As any 10-year-old knows (and game theorists can now elaborately prove), three-person secrets are particularly troublesome in this regard, because nobody can ever pinpoint which of the other two might have cheated.

  • The most impressive feature is the “Tree of Jesse,” an elaborately carved, gilded and painted 18th-century wood sculpture on the northern wall.


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