fretwork

Example Sentences

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Despite some impressive fretwork from the star, the revved up audience's attention drifts somewhat.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2023

Its fretwork of thin glass tubes was bent and shaped to resemble an old-fashioned bellows camera.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2023

Years later they married, and Louise displayed the cherished card, tucked into the fretwork of a bedroom dresser, for decades to come.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023

I can’t remember what this one is called but it’s the one with pounding drums, heavy brass, a bit of guitar fretwork and is used often for boxing montages.

From The Guardian • May 9, 2021

Gogol is accustomed to the scenery, yet he still stares, at the short, dark men pulling rickshaws and the crumbling buildings side by side with fretwork balconies, hammers and sickles painted on their facades.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri