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adjective

elaborate

CEFR C1

involving many carefully arranged parts; detailed and complicated

In a sentence

Six example sentences with elaborate, each labelled with its topic.

  • The cathedral ceiling carries nine hundred carved panels, each fitted to its neighbors in one elaborate pattern that took decades.

    Architecture

  • Her wedding cake needed four days: sugar lace, hand piped shells, and an elaborate assembly of twelve separate layers.

    Cooking

  • The heist mission runs eleven timed stages with three fake exits, an elaborate design that few players finish without help.

    Gaming

  • The fugue's elaborate structure layers four voices, each entering a fifth apart, until the theme returns inverted.

    Music

  • The elaborate inbound play needed three screens and two fakes, and it produced an easy layup.

    Basketball

  • The heist's elaborate setup takes an hour of screen time, with maps and models of every corridor.

    Movies

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