Example sentences for: ornate

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

  • The main features are the sunken garden, lawns, and flowerbeds in traditional English style, and the beautiful ornate iron bandstand, where open-air concerts are still performed during the summer and in December just before Christmas.

  • Window-shop your way past the goldsmiths and furriers of the rue de la Paix to the ornate opera house (now named after its architect Charles Garnier to distinguish it from the new Opéra-Bastille; see page 52).

  • Are their sentence structures so ornate and pernickety that the meaning is obscured?

  • The minaret was converted into a bell tower, and a Gothic nave was tacked on to the original structure, followed by a high altar in ornate 16th-century Plateresque style, and some finely carved Baroque choir stalls.

  • Diatoms, unicellular algae with ornate silica shells, have fascinated amateur and professional biologists ever since the invention of the microscope.


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