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
In lacelike prose, with just enough homely obtrusions to prevent his art from seeming precious, Updike tells of a young man's epiphany.
From Time Magazine Archive
He began to turn out plans for buildings whose distinguishing features are precast concrete coaxed into graceful curves and lacelike delicacy, a box-shaped podium for a base, a surrounding pool, a gemlike skylight.
From Time Magazine Archive
"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
They were birches, because Foster saw their drooping, lacelike twigs above the low mist; and the indistinct object among their stems was the shieling.
From Carmen's Messenger by Harold Bindloss
