lacelike
Example Sentences
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And at the back is a long white landscape, bordered by a tangle of trees with lacelike leaves.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2013
"This lends support to a theory," said he, "which has recently been advanced that all proteins tend to spread out on surfaces and when they do so they all have a similar lacelike pattern."
From Time Magazine Archive
If the Cathedral of Chartres, delicate, lacelike, had been built in Hartford, Conn., it would probably by this time be a chipped and crumbling mass.
From Time Magazine Archive
The neurons are intricately connected by fine, often branching fibers, so the whole brain is a lacelike network of relays and conductors.
From Time Magazine Archive
By midnight she had just finished stirring the fire-tongs through the ghostly, lacelike ashes of her wedding gown.
From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell
