Example Sentences

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The spots begin to move, and slip-sliding traceries of luminosity explode.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023

Early on the Day before Christmas, thin, white clouds seemed to create lacy traceries as they crisscrossed a sky of pure blue.

From Washington Post • Dec. 24, 2021

Full of linear traceries, they came foremost from his widow, the painter Lee Krasner, and help measure her growing artistic independence.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2015

Charles Emerson's oil-on-canvas "Trajectory of Angels" evokes the essence rather than specifics of angelic beings making fiery, ethereal traceries across a backdrop of autumnal colors.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2012

The traceries, too, show the most approved treatment of leaves, green vines, &c., as well as some small heads.

From Stained Glass Tours in England by Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock