Examples of tracery in a Sentence

This window is an example of Gothic tracery. the delicate tracery of a butterfly's wing

Recent Examples on the Web Their graceful tracery was apparently preferable to the more blunt alternative, exercised by some in those days, of marking time by rhythmically pounding a large staff on the floor in front of the orchestra. — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2022 Nor were its sets especially assertive: Buckingham Palace and other locations were thinly suggested by some electric bulb tracery. — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021 They are perched amid seven plump oranges, more than a dozen orange blossoms in flower or bud, four honeybees and a tracery of stems and leaves. — Washington Post, 7 July 2021 There is also a small silver horseshoe and leaf spray, along with white decorative icing tracery laid on top. — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2021 Its stark lines, the gothic tracery of its wings, the fetching retro color scheme of orange and black and its ruby eyes all suggest some arts and crafts jewel. — Washington Post, 26 May 2021 No one builds 14th-century Gothic stonework anymore, these thick, load-bearing masonry walls, arches, tracery. — Marjorie Hunt, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2020 Boudin, who is slim, with a tracery of facial hair and a hyper-focussed social manner, walked around the deck, greeting old friends (Dohrn’s former law student! — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2019 The light work is particularly impressive in a movie that can shift with ease from the neon luridness of the midway to the delicate tracery of sunlight refracted through a stately retinue of chandeliers. — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 20 June 2019 See More

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