Sentence examples for ornate from inspiring English sources

The chants bounced around the ornate auditorium of Brisbane city hall for only 30 seconds or so, before the group joined hands and walked out into the scorching Brisbane sun.

1pm: lunch at Jackson's Emporium We stop off at Jackson's Emporium in the town of Hamilton for lunch – a place that features a giant, ornate piece of folding scenery from the Christmas window display of Myer in the 1970s.

His empire is now hollowed out and vacant as the once ornate bank that epitomised confidence, stolidity and trust in the Irish banking sector.

It dates back to the mid-18th century, and there are Dutch palaces, 15th-century Portuguese churches and ornate Indian temples to explore.

The boys were captivated by the medieval world around us, the priests with their ornate gold crosses, the tunnels linking the churches, and the macabre sight of human bones sticking out of coffins and carved niches in the rock face.

WS Graham wrote in a 1977 poem of "Floating across the frozen tundra / of the lexicon and the dictionary", but I find lexicons to be more tropical jungle than tundra, gloriously ornate in their tendrilled outgrowths and complex root systems.

From running a successful scuba-diving business on Cyprus, the mother-of-two found herself catapulted into a world of grief, unable to even visit the ornate, two-storey villa the couple had bought on the island.

Tom tied the dog to the garden, side of the ornate iron railings and went up the steps.

Six different biscuits on the same ornate plate.

At lunchtime I was led to a nomad tent down the hill in the garden, with floor-cushion sofas around low ornate tables, thick rugs and lanterns.

The walls are lined with bottles of all sizes and ages, many of the ornate faded labels signed by matadors, flamenco stars and other local celebs.