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Example sentences for "filigreed"

Lexicographically close words:
filibuster; filibustering; filibusters; filiform; filigree; filii; filiis; filij; filing; filings
  1. Behind the latticework screens that fronted these balconies--some carved rosewood, some filigreed marble--Hawksworth could see clusters of idle women chewing betel and fanning themselves as they leaned forward to inspect the procession below.

  2. He started to turn, but suddenly two eunuchs appeared out of nowhere and were guiding him up the two marble steps to a stone platform, where they seated him on a filigreed wooden stool.

  3. It was the largest and gaudiest of the collection--a huge bowl of filigreed bronze, set with innumerable stones, as large as marbles, or larger.

  4. It was working all right last night, because my poor little girl was lying there, looking so pretty under the colored lights--" With strong twists of her big hands Lydia began to unscrew the filigreed bronze bowl.

  5. They are putting up a railing filigreed like Irish lace.

  6. She fetched up opposite a jeweller's shop, Where filigreed tiaras shone like crowns, And necklaces of emeralds seemed to drop And then float up again with lightness.

  7. It is a certain little filigreed hole in the throne-back which falls conveniently close to the sovereign's ear when he leans back between the periods of the wise, beauteous, and thrilling address to his subjects.

  8. For doubled up in a dark, close box behind the chair of state is a humble, drab individual who, from time to time, applies his mouth to the wrong side of the filigreed hole and whispers things.

  9. There these skeletons were taken into the most especial consideration, crowned with jewels and filigreed with gold.

  10. There was a mirror with a deep filigreed frame hanging over the mantel-piece in this room.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "filigreed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    barred; grated; laced; meshed; netted; reticular; streaked; striped