Example sentences for: ornate

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

  • Many other remains date from the Roman era, including ornate entrances round the Fountain of Peirene where you can still hear the waters flowing through caves at the rear, and the Lechaion Road that linked the city to Athens — with worn cart tracks clearly visible in the marble slabs.

  • The Casa Real Nueva, though imposing, is as the name implies relatively new and architecturally at odds with the more ornate older palaces, some of which were destroyed to make way for it.

  • A Taleju Temple, which is located through the Golden Gate at the far end of two courtyards, is closed to non-Hindus, but you can admire the carving on its door and get a peek past the attendant soldier to the ornate interior.

  • The renowned Theban queen Nefertari, wife of Ramses II, has the most ornate tomb (number 66) but it is not always accessible.

  • The landscape beyond the palace compound features many of the romantic elements of Chinese tradition: interconnected lakes and lotus ponds, forests, causeways and arched bridges, ornate pavilions, and towering pagodas.


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