Sentence examples for elaborate balls from inspiring English sources

For years, he staged elaborate balls for cross-dressers, some homosexual and some heterosexual.

In the late eighteenth century, French colonists emigrating from Haiti introduced elaborate balls and masquerade traditions to Trinidad.

It had belonged to the Marchesa Casati, who gave elaborate balls there – very different to Peggy's regime.

But modern ballroom wasn't born until a century later, when black and Latino drag queens started throwing elaborate "balls" in Harlem community centers and other public venues.

Two women, wearing elaborate ball gowns, stood slouched by a heat lamp and smoked cigarettes.

Each work required hundreds, sometimes thousands, of hours of precision beadwork to create, commanding prices of $100,000 or more for an elaborate ball gown.

Antoine Fontaine's sets and costumes, which replicate in detail Roman architecture, gardens and ruins, and dress the women in elaborate ball gowns, are stunning.

For example, the man and a woman who seem to have stepped out of colonial times are really a fort employee in work clothes (a late-18th-century soldier costume) and a young woman wearing one of the elaborate ball gowns favored by Cuban girls for their 15th-birthday celebrations.

On the headboard, James Dean dolls and Barbies in elaborate ball gowns are stacked on top of one another in their original boxes.

Yet when faced by Buttler even a wily campaigner like Kyle Abbott persuaded himself to bowl two elaborate slower balls.

My friend and sometime New Orleans neighbor Jaston Williams threw an elaborate masked ball, and I had dinner for some of the revelers at my house beforehand.