lacework

Example Sentences

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I still have a photo from a family trip in the 1930s to the worksite for Grand Coulee Dam in Eastern Washington — a beautiful lacework of steel in the sky.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2024

These translucent half-moons feature colored powdered glass that after heating look delicately patterned, like melted lacework.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2023

Every single part of the dress is made out of duct tape, including its striped ribboning, embroidered flowers, flowy sleeves and intricate lacework.

From Fox News • Jul. 23, 2021

I’d contracted encephalitis and the virus was eating away at my brain, a maggot through an apple, making lacework of the neural pathways.

From The Guardian • Dec. 6, 2018

The undersides held a stickier yellow glow, and here and there a gleaming edge was picked out in nacreous brown, and the occasional filigree lacework that blossomed around a ruptured skin.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan