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

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

I can’t remember what this one is called but it’s the one with pounding drums, heavy brass, a bit of guitar fretwork and is used often for boxing montages.

From The Guardian • May 9, 2021

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

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