tracery

Example Sentences

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Amid this gentle drama, Jewett depicts the marshland, where “the lines of the creeks made a broad tracery whichever way one looked.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Yet, his exquisite graphite drawing positions a viewer behind an iron railing decorated with the elegant tracery of the king’s monogram.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2023

In front of the new hedge, a simple 9-foot arbor, also stained a dark color, supports Clematis armandii, providing an evergreen tracery of foliage that’s smothered with fragrant white blooms in early spring.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2023

Clues in the remaining buildings reveal it had corner turrets and a great hall accessed via an impressive doorway and illuminated by tracery windows.

From BBC • May 1, 2022

The tracery, all of which was cut from templates, was cemented into place along with iron reinforcing bars as the piers were being built.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay