Looking for sentences and phrases with the word lacelike? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Clearly a master of her modest medium, she folds paper into facets, quills it into curlicues and cuts it into intricate, lacelike filigree.
The bridge resembles an ungainly doily with its spiky pinnacles and lacelike steel crisscrosses.
Insect that feeds by perforating leaves to the point of making them lacelike.
In Java the leather puppets for wayang kulit performances are fastidiously carved and painted so as to cast a lightly tinted, lacelike shadow when held against an illuminated screen.
The immense facade, covered with lacelike stonework, stands between two dissimilar towers, the left dating mostly from the 12th century, and the right from the 15th century.
Some late 15th-century Italian and Flemish paintings show elaborate hemstitching and narrow lacelike insertions at the seams of linen garments and cushions, which represent the beginning of needle lace.
Examples from Classical Literature
The interior is exquisite with lacelike carvings inlaid with semiprecious stones.
Wherever there is sufficient rainfall, the fine-fronded hemlock may be found tracing its lacelike outlines upon the atmosphere.
They must have been master workmen whose fingers and whose ancient forges worked those delicate and lacelike traceries.
The lacelike white of the flowering elder covered the whole earth with a delicate bridal veil.
By midnight she had just finished stirring the fire-tongs through the ghostly, lacelike ashes of her wedding gown.
Clouds of lacelike spray hung in the air after each attack, and cascading torrents returned to the waves.
The snowy petals, with their lacelike edges, closely resemble those of the white carnation.
Her bronze flesh was adorned with a lacelike tracery of beautiful design, in many tints.
She opened the box of candy, daintily pressed back the lacelike paper covering, and proffered some to him.
Set the mood with candlelight streaming out of the lacelike cutouts in this ceramic lantern.
Then it bursts into yellow bloom, still finer, more feathery and lacelike.
The rugged, green mountains, lacelike coast and fields of pomegranates, olive, citrus fruits and cotton provided plenty to admire on the journey.
We now have a new perspective on Orlando in Souza's lacelike interweaving of streets and map markings.
Her images are pages from antiquarian books that have been carefully cropped, photographed, or used as the base layer of lacelike collages.
Then it bursts into yellow bloom still finer, more feathery and lacelike.
Histopathology demonstrates infiltration of subcutaneous fat lobules by neoplastic cells in a lacelike pattern reminiscent of lobular lymphocytic panniculitis.
The holes grow rapidly in size and in concentration until the sheet forms a lacelike structure, then disintegrate into the particle size of the final dispersed phase.
