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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2018

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