fretwork

Example Sentences

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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

And Wolfgang Van Halen delivered flawless renditions of his father's fretwork on covers of pop-metal classics Panama and Hot For Teacher.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2022

Along the way War has mastered lyric writing, a tool now as keen as her fretwork.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2018

Nhamo looked for a way into the grassland so she could peer more closely into the windows, which were open but covered by a fretwork of iron.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer