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

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 interior is what I’d call “Victorian futurist”: glazed brick and tracery wrought-iron staircases and balustrades.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2022

He organized the museum around a grand atrium, roofed by a tracery of pyramid-shaped skylights that created a lively play of sun and shadow.

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2019

The tracery of the rose window for the front of the cathedral was carefully cut according to the plans.

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