How to Use baroque in a Sentence

baroque

adjective

• Think baroque seed pearls, strung with bits of glass, and polished agate and bulbs of orange turquoise.
  — Monica Kim, Vogue, 13 July 2018
• The two strangers tell Billy a long, baroque, and gruesome tale about how the man lost his eyes at the hands of soldiers.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 14 June 2023
• To the east, in Awadh, the baroque towers of Lucknow rose to rival those built by the Nizam in Hyderabad to the south.
  — The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• Arched doors and windows, baroque gables and a clay tile roof are among the 1930 home's character details.
  — Neal J. Leitereg, Jack Flemming and Lauren Beale, sacbee, 21 May 2018
• At one point, a throwback to the baroque era emerges amid the edgy soundscape, like a repressed memory.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 26 June 2018
• Rooms offer views of baroque buildings on the narrow streets stretching out to the Mediterranean Sea.
  — Sarah Rappaport, Fortune Europe, 5 Jan. 2024
• To try to obtain footage, the board had to navigate a baroque multistep process.
  — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2023
• The permitting process in the Nepal is, at best, baroque and convoluted.
  — Alan Arnette, Outside Online, 11 May 2018
• The chairs, bench and table evoke a baroque-meets-art nouvelle aesthetic.
  — Damon Johnstun, oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2023
• There’s the golden, baroque Schoenbrunn Palace, and the towering cathedral of St. Stephen’s.
  — Kate Krader, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
• For a kosher meal, head to the 17th-century, baroque-style Isaac Synagogue, which runs the Szalom Falafel kitchen.
  — Malavika Bhattacharya, National Geographic, 23 July 2019
• My favorite genres are lo-fi synth-pop and baroque chamber pop.
  — Mark Yarm, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
• The Frauenkirche, the baroque masterpiece in the city center, was also destroyed during the firebombing of the city.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Sep. 2019
• The music was a churchly choir, the lighting diffused, almost baroque.
  — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 15 Feb. 2018
• There was a baroque bob for the Goya Awards; a bouncy midi-chop at the Governors Awards; and just before that, a tousled lob.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
• The torture set pieces in the ‘Saw’ films are lavish gifts of baroque horror presented to the audience.
  — Rudie Obias, Variety, 20 Oct. 2023
• Winds batter ridges where seabirds howl like banshees, and jackals stalk baroque canyons of soft crumbling rock.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
• The town is known for its mix of renaissance, baroque, and Romanesque buildings, and parts of the medieval city walls remain intact.
  — Kayla Brock, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Aug. 2023
• Tourists and locals flock to the magnificent baroque landmark, plunking down on the steps and taking a breather from their busy day.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 8 Aug. 2019
• Models wore pops of electric red, from a leafy detail on a blouse to a baroque pattern on a dress with billowing sleeves.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
• Wolff’s book confirms what others have glimpsed or reported about the baroque character of the Trump White House.
  — Nancy Gibbs, Time, 11 Jan. 2018
• In truth, the Murphy-verse has always been animated by its embrace of all things baroque and bizarre.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• This room showed me that there are ways to push modernism into something that is really baroque.
  — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 6 Sep. 2022
• The Concours d’LeMons revives beloved and maligned baroque vehicles, mostly from the ’70s and ’80s.
  — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2018
• The property's main gate opens to a motor court with a baroque-inspired fountain at its center.
  — Lisa Zapalac, Houston Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2017
• Freshwater and baroque pearls give a nod to the sea, and their one-of-a-kind shape makes them the ultimate topper to a crisp fall blazer or a midi-dress and pair of boots.
  — Vogue, 20 Aug. 2019
• The body count in this baroque tale of avarice and corruption in contemporary India is high: five migrants are dead by the end of the first sentence.
  — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• As befits the general too-muchness, the dialogue is wild and baroque.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
• The mood of worry and moral concern is undercut, however, by the painting’s frothy, baroque style.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 9 June 2019
• Assael ‘s aquamarine pear shape and baroque Tahitian pearl earrings.
  — Beth Bernstein, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Sep 2024