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Example sentences for "elaborately"

Lexicographically close words:
ekvidis; ekzistas; elaborate; elaborated; elaborateness; elaborates; elaborating; elaboration; elaborations
  1. Much of the interior is beautifully and elaborately sculptured, and will bear long and close inspection.

  2. Every portion of the exterior bore minute inspection, it was so elaborately sculptured, so well preserved.

  3. He was dressed in a leather shirt elaborately fringed, as was the habit with all hunters, while his legs were encased in fringed leather leggings and in soft moccasins, all of which he had manufactured from skins he himself had obtained.

  4. The head of the pin is also elaborately decorated.

  5. The top of the shrine, curved to receive the handle of the bell, is of silver elaborately decorated.

  6. Who was it, Voltaire, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, somebody, who could write only when elaborately got up in his satins and ruffles?

  7. In hotels of the very first water, you have observed, a neat little pocket is attached to the outside of the bag, into which you have the fun of pinning your laundry slip, all elaborately made out.

  8. Underneath this inscription, and immediately over the entrance, are five heads, elaborately carved in stone.

  9. These stilts are elaborately carved poles, with carved figures towards the lower end, on the heads of which the feet rest.

  10. The heads of the chiefs were decorated with crowns made of long feathers; they wore long loose cloaks of native cloth over their shoulders, and carried in their hands elaborately carved clubs.

  11. Her beautiful throat and shoulders were uncovered, her hair dressed more elaborately than that of English girls in general.

  12. She caught up a shawl and wound it round her, elaborately defending herself against the cold, and came out to the steps to share in the last farewells.

  13. She was thin; she was bright-eyed; her hair was elaborately dressed with little ringlets across the forehead and around the ears, so Josie at once decided it was a wig.

  14. He was very elaborately dressed, with silk hat, patent-leather shoes and a cane setting off his Prince Albert coat and lavender striped trousers.

  15. In 1849, the question was again elaborately examined in Frothingham's Siege of Boston (p.

  16. Peck, a gentleman whose long residence in the far West, and familiarity with the history of those portions of the work less elaborately treated of in the first edition, rendered him admirably qualified for the undertaking.

  17. The princes' prayer chamber or pew is elaborately panelled, and the panels are all filled with inlays, mostly arabesques.

  18. In the Museum at Leipzig is a very fine cabinet, with many drawers within, elaborately inlaid with arabesques on a light ground, with a few architectural forms in ebony projecting.

  19. Their long dark tresses, elaborately greased, were plaited into thin cords with tassels at the extremity, and interwoven about the head with a band of coloured thread, to which was suspended a distinguishing cluster of cowrie shells.

  20. Only on Mary's sensitive ear something in the elaborately cheerful tone in which she mentioned their vanished friend would occasionally jar.

  21. He was still smiling at his recollection of the interview when the Swiss porter, accosting him in elaborately bad English, informed him that a lady and gentleman, who had left on the previous evening, had made particular inquiries after him.

  22. Probably the sculptures were like many still to be seen in the temples of that date in Southern India, where the base of the pillar is elaborately carved with grotesque figures of elephants, horses, and monsters.

  23. The doors are divided by a pier surmounted by a figure of the Virgin and Child under an elaborately carved canopy, which stands out upon the plain, undecorated lintel.

  24. The elaborately enamelled brass slabs of the children of S.

  25. The pillars are without capitals; but, as in many of the other churches, the keystones and bosses are elaborately carved.

  26. The history of this culte is elaborately worked out.

  27. Elsewhere the matter was not thus taken for granted, and was elaborately argued with all the resources of scholastic logic.

  28. The sentence was duly executed two days later on a scaffold in front of Nôtre Dame, in presence of a vast crowd, to whom the famous doctor, Benoist Gencien, elaborately explained the enormity of the heresy.

  29. It was obtained by examining the accused on a series of charges elaborately drawn up, and by requiring answers to each article in succession, so that the general features of the so-called confessions were suggested in advance.

  30. Mycenaean pottery, together with elaborately decorated vases of Mycenaean technique, either made locally or specially made for Cyprus and imported.

  31. This either took the form of a hollow cylindrical base, painted with subjects, or of an elaborately moulded stem with egg-and-tongue and other patterns.

  32. Of drinking-cups the kantharos and rhyton are popular among the later Apulian wares; the kotyle is rare, and the kylix has almost entirely disappeared, its place being taken by a gigantic circular dish, elaborately decorated inside and out.

  33. Hippocamp painted on either side in white and colours outlined with black, the wings being elaborately rendered in blue, brown, yellow, and pink.

  34. As she spoke Miss Jocund threw open the door of an adjoining room, where the said productions were elaborately laid out, and Mrs. Stokes ran in to have the first view.

  35. She was formally courteous, elaborately gracious, but grande dame from her shoe-tie to the top-knot of her cap.

  36. And Donald, though his interest in exploring the creature once so elaborately mysteried was long since utterly exhausted, would probably take that argument amiss no more than Dr.

  37. Hence, while she lay withdrawn from the battle of life with bronchitis, the helper had been elaborately at work on new lines: stalking School Board members for Mary, in fine, with great cunning.

  38. Many were elaborately carved in porphyry or some other hard stone, while others were made of baked clay.

  39. Nor are they of value or interest to any except special students who can find them elaborately set forth in many volumes, some in Spanish and a few in English.

  40. Others, many of them also elaborately carved and ornamented, have been found in Mexico.

  41. If the affair is a formal one the hair may be as elaborately marcelled as for the evening.

  42. For a formal affair formal decollete dress with the hair arranged somewhat more elaborately than usual is required.

  43. For an informal tea the hostess may wear a clinging gown of silk but she should not dress very sumptuously for her guests will come simply attired and it is hardly hospitable to be a great deal more elaborately dressed than they.

  44. One person out of harmony with the rest will spoil the whole evening as certainly as a sudden summer shower spoils the most elaborately planned garden party.

  45. The event is a brilliant one, and if gaudiness and ostentation are conscientiously avoided, one may dress as elaborately as one pleases.

  46. One did not notice individual gowns, for no one woman was dressed more elaborately than another.

  47. He was magnificently arrayed in his royal robes of green, richly ornamented with variegated feather-work, and elaborately inwrought with gold and silver.

  48. The mother held in her hand a roll of bark, elaborately decorated with feathers and bead-work, encompassed with a scarf of broadcloth, highly embroidered.

  49. Sometimes it consists in charades, more or less elaborately conducted, according to circumstances.

  50. There may be seen gratuitously on the streets of Milan a picture of a different kind in the elaborately made–up head–dress of the women.

  51. Silent as a mute was he as to what he had seen; elaborately careful likewise to carry out the family programme as usual.

  52. They put themselves elaborately in his way, to move at his approach with grunts of guttural protestation.

  53. The Abhidhammas do not give any new doctrines that are not in the suttas, but they deal somewhat elaborately with those that are already found in the suttas.

  54. Pañcas'ikha of course does not describe the system as elaborately as Caraka does.

  55. If they are not satisfied, and want to know more definitely and elaborately about the contents of the different systems, I am afraid they will have to go to the originals referred to in the bibliographical notices of the chapters.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elaborately" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    extravagantly; grandly; impressively; magnificently; nobly; proudly; splendidly; superbly