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• The dining room had an ornate ceiling.From the entry ceiling
• Medieval paintings often depict bishops in ornate vestments.From the entry vestment
• The ceiling was covered in ornate frescoings.From the entry frescoing
• Holyokian architecture is a product of the rapid industrial growth of the nineteenth century, with ornate details executed by the craftsmen who settled there.From the entry Holyokian
• The Browns gave the Obamas an ornate penholder made from the timber of a Victorian antislave ship.2009 April 3, Helene Cooper, “Obama’s Star Turn at Summit Gets Mixed Results”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Feb…. From the entry penholder
• "Something as simple as a locked chest or as ornate as a piece of sculpture.2007 March, Tim Waggoner, chapter 2, in Forge of the Mind Slayers (Blade of the Flame; 2), Renton, Wash.: Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN…. From the entry phylactery
• Torrentius shows a stone waterjug, while Visscher has an ornate ewer, presumably in silver or gilt.1997, Roland E Fleischer, Susan C Scott, Rembrandt, Rubens, and the art of their time: recent perspectives. From the entry water jug
• The most ornate and flashy piece of clothing was the turban.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 43. From the entry turra
• Inside is one cozy room, half the kitchen area taken up by an ornate footed stove.1990, Sharlene Baker, Finding Signs, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry footed
• Now the University shop ONLY offers ornate codpieces and ruffed shirts with intricate floor plans of the Minster printed on them.2023 February 27, Eddie Atkinson, “New University Merch!”, in The Lemon Press, number 55, University of York, page 6, column 1. From the entry longboi
• The ornate canopy supports are overdue a repaint, and the closed cafe gives the place a forlorn air.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in RAIL, page 67. From the entry forlorn
• Soft baroque music pipes through the ornate, dripping-with-gold church sanctuary.2009, Susan Van Allen, “Churches Dedicated to Female Saints—Rome”, in 100 Places in Italy Every Woman should Go, Palo Alto, Calif.…. From the entry pipe
• The ornate scutums and the festoons in the Ixodidæ. 3.1960, John Hendrick Whitlock, Diagnosis of Veterinary Parasitisms, Lea & Febiger, page 62. From the entry scutums
• She held an ornate brass coffee mill under her left arm and used her right hand to grind the freshly toasted beans.2012, Nada Saleh, New Flavours of the Lebanese Table. From the entry coffee mill
• Women also produced ‘little things’ to be sold door to door by their unemployed husbands, such as ornate covers for milkjugs, and doilies and hankies.2006, David Potts, The Myth of the Great Depression, Melbourne, Vic.: Scribe, →ISBN, page 99. From the entry milkjug
• What’s he trying to do to us? her father says, as they pass a shop displaying porcelain supperware and an ornate silver epergne.2005, Kevin Haworth, The Discontinuity of Small Things, Quality Words In Print, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry supperware
• Consequently, overly ornate bathrooms are not good from a feng shui point of view as they tend to hold the ch'i inside the room.2004, Richard Webster, “The Bathroom”, in 101 Feng Shui Tips for Your Home, St. Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn Publishers, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry feng shui
• It was just like an old novel: an ornate iron gate was opened by a liveried janitor, looking askance at my rather derelict pushbike.1984, Tad Sobolewski, Crossing the Bridges, Adelaide, S.A.: Dezsery Ethnic Publications, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry pushbike
• It was the earliest brick-constructed house of its size in Shropshire, and is complete with minstrels' gallery, ornate chimneystacks, and vast fireplaces.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 102. From the entry minstrels' gallery
• This ornate wine glass, or roemer — with a hollow, prunted stem — bears an enameled scene of Mercury's rescue of the infant Bacchus.1959, The Glass Industry, volumes 40-41, page 106. From the entry prunted
• There is also some Turkish weaponry and a parade harness; there are ornate woven carpets and the woven belts with which the noblemen of Poland tie their long żupans.2021, Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft, “Of how the world was born of God’s exhaustion”, in The Books of Jacob: A Novel, New…. From the entry żupan
• The ornate four-poster bed is made up in lacy fabric, there are towels in the bathroom, along with full bottles of hand wash and body lotion.2011, Kate Harrison, “Grazia”, in The Secret Shopper Affair, London: Orion Books, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry hand wash
• The trends were clear enough, more handsome cooperatives marching along the lake shore, apartments by the blockful, ornate hives designed to accommodate the growing density of the city.1986, Mary Shura Craig, Fortune's Destiny, page 120. From the entry blockful

Meaning of ornate

1. adjective Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.
2. adjective Flashy, flowery or showy.
3. adjective Finely finished, as a style of composition.

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Questions about ornate in a sentence

How do you use ornate in a sentence?

Ornate is used as an adjective and verb. For example: “The dining room had an ornate ceiling.”

What is a short sentence with ornate?

“The ceiling was covered in ornate frescoings.”

What does ornate mean?

Ornate means elaborately ornamented, often to excess.