elaborately
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Reckzeh had been set up as a spy and agent provocateur by the Gestapo: Thadden had been fooled by his elaborately constructed cover story.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025
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
Only this one relies heavily on technology rather than memorabilia or elaborately designed sets that have placed us anywhere from a prison to a submarine.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025
In an elaborately choreographed ceremony first used in 1936, the foremost of a group of priestesses in long, pleated dresses offers a prayer to the ancient Greek sun god, Apollo.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024
It was so pretty, so elaborately basket-woven among hen and egg, we did not at first understand what we saw.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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