Now, if it were required to equate that sum with its present value, a very operose [Endnote: 13] calculation might be requisite.
Chelsea, by a joint stock company, in a factory constructed for executing the preceding most operose and defective process; which has been, many years ago, tried without success in Germany.
In the large manufactories of this country, the ignition of the above mixture in pots is laid aside, as too operose and expensive.
On the above-described operose and preposterous process, it is needless to make any remarks.
A complex, operose office of account and control is, in itself, and even if members of Parliament had nothing to do with it, the most prodigal of all things.
The more curious and operose Manufactures are, the more Hands they employ; and that with the Variety of them, the Number of Workmen must still encrease, wants no Proof.
He that gives most Trouble to Thousands of his Neighbours, and invents the most operose Manufactures is, right or wrong, the greatest Friend to the Society.
How came it, when a Greek sculptor had completed some operose performance, that his countrymen bore him in triumph thro' their city, and rejoiced in his prosperity as identical with their own?
In the execution, it was an operose business on both sides of the water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "operose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
