Example sentences for: ornate

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

  • Ornate carvings on the stone façade can still just be discerned, though they have suffered greatly through weathering and pollution.

  • The Lama Temple is large and ornate, with about 200 monks in residence today.

  • The ornate tombs are still carefully attended and hold the remains of some of Puerto Rico’s most illustrious families.

  • Cross the Ponte Vecchio to the sprawling Pitti Palace (Palazzo Pitti), its dauntingly heavy and graceless façade belying the ornate and colorful interior.

  • It is not: "In the latter Tang dynasty," says the wall panel, "Buddhist images tended to become more ponderous, fleshy, and overly ornate, completely departing from the slender and ethereal beauty characteristic of many sixth-century sculptures."


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