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
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
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
It bites an opening through its silken walls, and out steps—not the hungry, little, all-devouring aphis lion, but this elegant lady with her pale-green lacelike wings and her large, golden eyes.
From The Insect Folk by Margaret Warner Morley
