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

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

Nor were its sets especially assertive: Buckingham Palace and other locations were thinly suggested by some electric bulb tracery.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2021

There they cut stones and tracery, carved capitals and sculptures in preparation for the return of the masons in the spring.

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