Example sentences for: sumptuously

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

  • Crisply radiating pleats and sumptuously layered folds of fabric were deftly manipulated into sweeping skirts, draped shawls, billowing bows--a universe of precious textiles, often embroidered or sequined, to spread out from the hourglass torso.

  • With its five mosquelike domes, it is the most sumptuously exotic and orientally inspired church ever built in the Roman Catholic world.

  • The Salón de Embajadores (Hall of the Ambassadors), or royal audience chamber, is one of the most sumptuously ornamented rooms in the Alhambra.

  • The scores of East of Eden , Spartacus , Jules and Jim , Dodes'kaden , and a host of other classic films, whose music we have heard mostly squeezed stingily out of tinny television speakers, have been sumptuously rerecorded.

  • The Pitti’s next-most visited gallery, the Silverware Museum (Museo degli Argenti), occupies 16 sumptuously decorated rooms to offset the Medici family’s invaluable treasures — gold, silver, jewels, beautiful 16th- and 17th-century amber and ivory, crystal, porcelain, and Baroque furniture.


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