elaborately
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Near Darkness lurks a table laden with sugar-crusted fruit and an elaborately stemmed flute holding what looks like champagne.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
The exhibit also approaches issues of gender, through the elaborately decorated 1511 lira da braccio, a bowed string instrument of the Renaissance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
One space, the first floor anteroom, is lined with red and gold silk, with centuries-old paintings hanging on the walls and an elaborately decorative fireplace standing beside a huge floor-to-ceiling window.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025
On Gardi Sugdub, women who make the elaborately embroidered molas worn by Guna women hang them outside their homes when finished, trying to catch the eye of visiting tourists.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
It was a high-stacked Dodge painted burgundy in Anacortes, elaborately pin-striped and with decorative exhaust extensions pillared just behind the gleaming cab—a schoolboy’s play truck, in short.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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