Example Sentences
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Overhead, wisteria-laden laths shot through with light cast zebraic arrays of shadow, constantly shifting — another Killingsworth trademark that turns the house into a protean phenomenon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2019
She dresses in the traditional clothing of the region—a dark skirt, an embroidered huipil made on a waist loom—and weaves green laths into her long obsidian braids.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2018
The three of them moved in a row, stepping on the crooked laths, a few paces apart.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2013
The Westphalen employs an ingenious system: Attached to the steamer's stern is an enormous tarpaulin apron criss-crossed by wooden laths, called a drag-sail.
From Time Magazine Archive
Elsewhere, the exposed laths, themselves rotting away, showed through like the ribs of a starving animal.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
