ornate

How to use ornate in a sentence

• He was so into measuring heat that in 1657 he started a private academy, the Accademia del Cimento, where investigators explored various forms and shapes for their thermoscopes, including ornate-looking designs with spiraling cylindrical columns.

  Melting Butter, Poisonous Mushrooms and the Strange History of the Invention of the Thermometer | Phil Jaekl | June 1, 2021 | Time

• At an ornate altar in her dining room, she made offerings of flowers and apples and lit candles to Santa Muerte.

  A Crisis of Undiagnosed Cancers Is Emerging in the Pandemic’s Second Year | by Duaa Eldeib, video by Alex Garcia | May 4, 2021 | ProPublica

• The town of Mendocino, with its ocean fogs and ornate Victorian architecture, is an eerie presence in this novel, its otherworldliness intensified by Anna’s desperate recourse to a psychic for help in finding Cameron.

  In her novel ‘When the Stars Go Dark,’ Paula McLain draws on abuse cases, including her own | Maureen Corrigan | April 23, 2021 | Washington Post

• When the legislature convenes for a possible special session later this year related to coronavirus relief, Filler-Corn is hoping that vaccinations will allow all 100 delegates to return to the ornate House chamber.

  Virginia House speaker says in-person lawmaking might return soon, defends Democratic control | Gregory S. Schneider | April 23, 2021 | Washington Post

• The ornate pipe in question, with its long plunging stem and generous bowl, once belonged to the grandfather of Curdin, the protagonist of “Mundaun.”

  ‘Mundaun’ offers the rare chance to smoke a pipe while talking to the severed head of a goat | Christopher Byrd | March 26, 2021 | Washington Post