Sentence examples for elaborate pattern from inspiring English sources

On an end table was a tortoiseshell with an elaborate pattern.

The day dress designed by Emile Pingat in 1980 is admirable for the simplicity of its design and also the elaborate pattern.

Made from the same fabric used to make the pope's robes, the metallic brocade contains real gold and silver threads twisted together in an elaborate pattern.

It was a complicated tapestry of events, in which a thread pulled loose in one part of the elaborate pattern affected the whole.

With all these characters taking their turns at center stage, "Music & Silence" is intricately structured, not just in its action but in the elaborate pattern of imagery -- to do with music, silence and, more eccentrically, buttons -- that Tremain twines around her narrative snippets.

Every detail of the figure, from her stylishly filed teeth to the elaborate pattern of raised scars on her skin, would seem to confirm, in African terms, her status as a social and moral ideal, while Western viewers may read, in her Madonna-like pose and upturned face, with its parted lips and half-closed eyes, an expression of maternal joy.

In one lavish divan, or poetry collection, at the Met, a couplet in Sultan Ali's hand occupies just a fraction of a page but is carefully boxed off and centered, then enshrined in an elaborate, pattern-filled border of gold and baby blue.

We take leave of him as he dreams of new and more elaborate patterns of aggression.

Before European missionaries arrived, some African women painted their bodies in elaborate patterns to make themselves more comely before marriage.

In the chambered shell of the ammonites, internal septa create elaborate patterns where they join the outer shell.

"Mementos," made of dried rose petals joined in elaborate patterns by lacelike sections of meticulously hand-stitched, artificial hair, resemble big doilies.