fretwork
Example Sentences
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Mr. Walker’s driving, multilayered fretwork helped propel the dark though often danceable sound of a band that helped pioneer industrial music by blending heavy metal intensity, new wave hooks and a punk taste for provocation.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2023
Despite some impressive fretwork from the star, the revved up audience's attention drifts somewhat.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2023
Its fretwork of thin glass tubes was bent and shaped to resemble an old-fashioned bellows camera.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2023
Years later they married, and Louise displayed the cherished card, tucked into the fretwork of a bedroom dresser, for decades to come.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
Gogol is accustomed to the scenery, yet he still stares, at the short, dark men pulling rickshaws and the crumbling buildings side by side with fretwork balconies, hammers and sickles painted on their facades.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
