Sentence examples for be ornate from inspiring English sources
adjective
Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.
Gottwald will say, "Let's redo the 'right now's, because they should be simple, but everything else should be ornate, like a lead.
St. Aubyn's metaphors can be ornate, but his writing generally has a retaliatory steeliness; it seems to keep a promise to Patrick, who, awake at night, resolves that, one day, he'll "play football with the heads of his enemies".
"Dashboards, certainly at that time, tended to be ornate," William E. Pommering, secretary-treasurer of the Tucker Automobile Club of America (tuckerclub.org), said in a telephone interview on Friday.
(I omitted Edward Weston from my recent column on photographers who wrote well; his prose can be ornate and overwritten, but The Daybooks of Edward Weston are nevertheless an illuminating – and, for their time, incredibly honest – insight into the everyday highs and lows of the artistic life).
The plate doesn't have to be ornate or elaborate.
They could be ornate, wooden, simple stone, spiral - whatever feels right for you.
Some entrees were ornate.
Where Sullivan is ornate, Ando is austere.
Their honeymoon suite was ornate.
Shoes were ornate, but chunky.
It is ornate, but sparsely decorated.
