elaborately
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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At last the eye patch was finished, and Margaret adjusted it carefully so as not to muss Lady Constance’s elaborately upswept hair.
From Literature
They include snow-white representations of petal-covered blossoms, elaborately embossed apricot sweets and crystallized shoots from spring plants.
From New York Times
But the artist’s elaborately patterned pictures incorporate text, numbers and familiar emblems that are just as evocative of recent times as Evans’s artifacts are of earlier eras.
From Washington Post
I missed the sensation I had after riding Expedition Everest for the first time, and marveling at the mysteries hidden inside an elaborately detailed mountain.
From Los Angeles Times
They passed the Fickle Fountain, an elaborately carved monument that occasionally spat out water in which young children played.
From Literature
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