How to Use the baroque in a Sentence

the baroque

noun
  • At least, the baroque pearl necklace has been making a convincing case this summer.
    — Selene Oliva, Glamour, 30 July 2025
  • On Wednesday night, Rodgers boarded the baroque aircraft with an assignment.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Not Bach — not classical in the baroque sense, but in the romantic sense, the Byronic sense.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
  • He was struck by the baroque architecture, walkable historic cities and the warmth of the southern Italians.
    — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Rupert needed a Hollywood rabbi, someone who could teach him the baroque ways in which the town operated.
    — Gabriel Sherman, HollywoodReporter, 3 Feb. 2026
  • In other words, the serious volume that characterises the baroque bob is pretty natural for me.
    — Keeks Reid, refinery29.com, 6 Feb. 2024
  • And her experimentation with the baroque and the surreal set her apart from most other Brazilian writers of her time.
    — Ana Ionova, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • St George’s Basilica in Victoria is one of the best examples of the baroque style popular on the islands.
    — AFAR Media, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Restoration work in the 17th century in the baroque style radically changed the cathedral’s outward appearance.
    — J. Eugene Clay, The Conversation, 28 July 2022
  • Surprisingly the baroque bob has been one of the easiest haircuts to work with on a daily basis, and my Dyson Airwrap has been invaluable.
    — Keeks Reid, refinery29.com, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Some of these are arranged into more staid compositions of geometric bands of color, while others bend and bulge into shapes evoking the baroque ruination of junk-yard findings.
    — Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
  • One longstanding collaboration is with the baroque ensemble, Agave.
    — Beth Woodcontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Performing the complete cycle takes around two hours, and doing it live probably qualifies as the Mount Olympus of the baroque violin.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • During the baroque period, white asparagus was a luxury commodity reserved for the nobility.
    — Yolanda Evans, AFAR Media, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Gone, too, are the baroque sets and atmospheric lighting of previous installments, replaced instead with retina-searing studio interiors.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Portofiro and the baroque universe surrounding it—communists on-world, techno-fascists offplanet, and all manner of augmentoids and spooks in the immaterial planes between—can make for a dizzying read.
    — Alex James Kane, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Given the baroque language of the text, not to mention the metaphysical events within the narrative itself, Dieter’s exact exploits remain open for interpretation.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Reflecting the symmetry of the baroque palace but at the same time utterly modern, the extension houses a museum for children and a permanent exhibition on the Dutch royal family.
    — Amy Bradford, Architectural Digest, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The peaceful abode came with a whopping five sets of floor-to-ceiling double windows, overlooking the baroque Church of San Pietro Celestino and the hotel’s interior courtyard.
    — Jennifer Bradley Franklin, Travel + Leisure, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The ’60s iteration borrows elements of the baroque bob—another popular chop, see Zendaya’s bouncy cut for a good reference—but with all the body, movement, and texture of the original.
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 12 June 2024
  • And then there’s the emotional, irrational lift of gilt and glory, the baroque architecture, the Renaissance art, the history stretching back to Jesus and Saint Peter.
    — Howard Chua-Eoan, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The government’s prosecution of Winner reflected all the baroque contortions and absurdities of the post-9/11 legal system.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Cinematographer Linus Sandgren's lens evokes the baroque darkness of Caravaggio and the rococo trappings of Gainsborough.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Quite who put the hit on the yakuza guy is less important than the baroque, ritualistic way Boksoon is going to off him, first giving the unarmed man a sword to defend himself with, then selecting for herself a cheap DIY store axe.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Enormous live oaks shade many of the curving pathways, and sycamores, replanted during the 1990s renovation of the Capitol Complex, line the formal processional walk to the south of the baroque domed structure.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • The most obvious comparison with Joy is Vaughan herself — the rich lower register, the baroque melodic ornamentation, swoops up and down octaves from word to word, multi-note melisma stretching one-syllable words to infinity.
    — Jon Garelick, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The Renaissance provides inspiration for the baroque bob, which embodies the ornate curves and intricate filigree work on imposing European architecture and artwork in the form of voluminous curves and waves, says Antiga.
    — Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Tucked away on an unassuming street in the Greenpoint neighborhood, the baroque, historic Warsaw holds just 1,000 people in its intimate, standing-room-only setting — a callback to the types of places where Smith, 33, began their career.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • This is the Murphy universe’s realism-forward wing, far from the baroque camp of American Horror Story and closer to American Crime Story, home to some of Murphy’s sharpest and most critically lauded work.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Like Fielder’s previous docu–reality show Nathan for You, 2013–17, The Rehearsal is a show driven by the baroque restaging of scenarios to solve complex chains of problems beset with profoundly psychosocial dimensions.
    — Patrick R. Crowley, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026

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