elaborate

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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