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Example sentences for: ornate

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Grand but run-down buildings, with fading flamingo-pink and lime-green façades and ornate columns, flank a raised promenade of laurels, gas lamps, and marble benches.
The ornate, picturesque temple dates from the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) and is the oldest building in Macau.
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."
You’ll also find lots of older pieces — not quite antique but still exquisite — in collectibles shops around the town in the form of pretty spoons, ornate pill and snuff boxes, or letter openers.
Simply styled male and female figures (kouros and kore) of the Achaiac Age (seventh–fifth century b.c.) give way to more ornate and literal human forms as you walk through the collection into the Classical Age and then on to the Hellenistic and Roman eras.