Example sentences for: elaborately

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

  • Its name belies the true character of this elaborately pedimented monument, which constitutes both gateway and shopping complex.

  • Meanwhile, kids (of all races) who live inside elaborately constructed safety cones--airbags; mandatory bicycle helmets; mommy pagers; home-security systems; anti-drug campaigns; anti-sex propaganda; and sanitized-for-your-protection suburbs--yearn for something to rebel against.

  • Lucky audiences who caught Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (it was shelved when Richard Carpenter served the producers with an order to cease and desist exhibition) began by laughing at this elaborately posed, soft-rock femme, only to discover by the climax that the cultural forces that were eating at her (and that kept her from eating) had grown heartbreakingly palpable.

  • "Walkin' the mile …," repeats the old man as he and the guards troop down the corridor--known as the Green Mile for the color of the floor--to the chair, in which he's elaborately strapped, offered an opportunity to make a final statement ("Sorry for all the bad shit I done"), and mock-dispatched.

  • The interior continues the bands of black and white marble, while elaborately inlaid marble paving  — one of the cathedral’s primary attractions, with large sections regularly covered for protection — covers the floor with 56 pictures of biblical and allegorical themes, done over two centuries by some 40 artists.


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