Ornate

//ɔɹˈneɪt//

"Ornate" in a Sentence (13 examples)

That ornate silver platter is my favorite!

The loaf of bread was adorned with ornate tiny squirrels.

If you look up, you'll see ornate decorations all over the vault of the church.

The painting is in an ornate frame.

The wardrobe is made from dark wood and has ornate gold handles.

And that was without question a very large and ornate and costly mahogany bookcase with glass doors.

The biggest bedroom had a small, ornate fireplace on one wall which had seen recent use judging by the ashes crumbling in the grate.

It's a quiet scene compared to Ellis Island's heyday between 1892 and 1924, during which 12 million immigrants passed through the facility's ornate, red-brick buildings, usually with little more than a satchel tied with rope and their loved ones in tow.

It takes a skilled craftsman to carve a handle that ornate.

Russian traditional clothing, such as the ornate and colorful sarafans and kokoshniks, is a beautiful expression of the country's rich and diverse cultural identity.

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The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ;[…]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”

a graceful and ornate rhetoric

And truely thoſe that lyue in the feare of god, (conſydering that they ſerue not only their carnal maiſters, but God hymſelfe,) they be in a good caſe: but they may not bee eye ſeruauntes. […] Saincte Paule woulde haue them to lyue ſo, that they maye ornate and ſanctifye the name of God.

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