Example sentences for: ornately

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

  • All that’s left now in the Old Summer Palace are some of the most haunting ruins in China, particularly in a section known as the Garden of Eternal Spring (Changchun Yuan), where European-style halls, marble fountains, mazes, and a concert stand are now a broken jumble of ornately carved columns and arches.

  • Subsequent “licences” granted by the Ottomans to European nobles saw many prize friezes disappear to archaeological collections around Europe, including the Elgin marbles (ornately carved pediments) that were taken to London by Lord Elgin.

  • This structure, like Yomeimon, is also a National Treasure and just as ornately carved and painted.

  • The film's centerpiece is a sequence in which the doctor perilously crashes an ornately choreographed orgy in which the rich and powerful wear cloaks and Venetian masks and ogle long-legged women as they're marshaled and disrobed by attendants.

  • The Royal Palace (Palazzo Reale) was the ornately Baroque home of the Savoy princes from the mid-1600s to 1865.


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