fretwork
Example Sentences
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Mr. Walker’s driving, multilayered fretwork helped propel the dark though often danceable sound of a band that helped pioneer industrial music by blending heavy metal intensity, new wave hooks and a punk taste for provocation.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2023
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
The 71-foot-high glass pyramid he built as the Louvre’s new entrance relied for its extraordinary visual lightness on a fretwork of stainless-steel rods and cables made by a manufacturer of yacht rigging.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2019
She’s in one of her best dresses, sky blue with embroidery in white along the edges of the veil: flowers and fretwork.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
