How to Use tracery in a Sentence

tracery

noun
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  • This window is an example of Gothic tracery.
  • As seen from space, the tracery at the melting edge of sea ice is beautiful.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2013
  • 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
  • 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
  • The bloom is golden with a tracery of magenta venation.
    — Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Small pea-like flowers line branches with fuchsia tracery.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2021
  • Select rooms at the new Chicago hotel now have views to the lakefront through original gothic traceries and arches.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Their height minimizes the elevation of the bulky White House, and the craggy gray tracery of their winter branches softens the wedding-cake whiteness of the backdrop.
    — Mac Griswold, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Spread out over the sand at each tiny entrance was an elaborate tracery of crab footprints, as if each crab had woven a fresh lace welcome mat for visitors.
    — New York Times, 28 June 2018
  • 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
  • Their many sculptures turned them into bibles of stone while the ribbing and traceries added amazing decorative energy.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • White pilasters rising at intervals set up a pleasing counterpoint to the walnut tracery of the bookshelves holding Neri’s collection.
    — David Laskin, New York Times, 13 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • No one builds 14th-century Gothic stonework anymore, these thick, load-bearing masonry walls, arches, tracery.
    — Marjorie Hunt, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2020
  • Notable also is the biclinium (two-benched dining room) with a first-century AD frescoed ceiling painted all over with a delicate tracery of vines with bunches of grapes hanging from the branches.
    — Jim Berkeley, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • Notable also is the biclinium (two-benched dining room) with a first-century AD frescoed ceiling painted all over with a delicate tracery of vines with bunches of grapes hanging from the branches.
    — Jim Berkeley, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • Designed by the architect Cass Gilbert, it’s draped in glazed white terra-cotta, embellished with neo-Gothic arches and tracery, and rises nearly eight hundred feet above lower Manhattan.
    — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
  • But Estonians in and around Soomaa expect their fifth season, which comes between winter and spring, when water from melting snow fills Soomaa with floodwater, swamping the forest and creating a tracery of waterways perfect for canoeing.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 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
  • Shortly before the piece ends, unexpected percussion bursts and delicate piano tracery push the music toward an eerie landscape—a musical equivalent of magical realism.
    — Allan Kozinn, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2018

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