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Six example sentences with ornate, each labelled with its topic.
The ornate prose piles three clauses and two metaphors onto a sentence that could have said this in six words.
Literature
The annual report was so ornate that shareholders needed a second reading to find the one number about falling sales.
Business
Readers rated the ornate paragraph as less trustworthy than the plain one, even though both carried identical facts.
Psychology
The bank's ornate facade crowds carved vines, lions, and a clock into a front only thirty feet wide.
Architecture
The singer's ornate cadenza added trills and runs to every phrase until the plain melody was almost lost.
Music
The senator's ornate speech ran forty minutes and quoted six poets before reaching the bill under debate.
Politics
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