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

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

So we made a shirt with an extra sleeve in it, and a musician crouched behind doing the fretwork as Redden strummed.

From The Guardian • May 29, 2017

Matt heard him slither through the fretwork of bones.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer