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

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

He hung in the midst of a sea of bones, with the blue sky visible through a fretwork of ribs and vertebrae.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer