elaborately
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Elaborately uniformed staff around the hall are as drilled as the soldiers who have been on parade during the day.
From BBC • Sep. 17, 2025
Elaborately contemplative, it’s the antithesis of a pop bio-pic.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 1, 2019
Elaborately framed full-length mirrors, built-in cabinets, a marble-topped sink and teal wallpaper bearing quatrefoils stenciled in gold and silver add to this single Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2016
Elaborately carved tusks were among the ivory items pulverized at the U.S. ivory crush on November 14.
From Scientific American • Nov. 19, 2013
Elaborately carved bows, a quiver of obsidian-tipped arrows, frighteningly muscular crossbows—even a mace, although it was hard for them to imagine Scythe Faraday taking someone out with a mace.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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