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Example sentences for "open work"

  • In many cases, however, the Roman shoe was truly of open work.

  • This is composed of diamonds set generally in gold; and is open work, representing roses, leaves, &c.

  • Running below these compartments on both sides, there is an open work of about an inch in width, to permit the sound to come more freely out when the watch strikes.

  • In this case a rudely worked, though effective, border is secured by changing the angle of the upright series near the top and combining them by plaiting, and in such a way as to leave a border of open work.

  • Decorative effects produced by variations in the radiate or warp series in an open work tray.

  • Conical basket of the Klamath Indians of Oregon, showing peculiar twined effect and an open work border--1/8.

  • Open work of this class is sometimes completed by after processes, certain threads or filaments being drawn out or introduced, by which means the figures are emphasized and varied.

  • The fronts of the stalls are generally of open work, shewing the hinged seats, or misereres as they are usually called, behind; in both series of stalls these are curiously and grotesquely carved beneath.

  • A filling of open work can be carried out in a variety of ways; it may be a decorated trellis, a regular dotting of some kind, or some geometrical pattern in outline, or some light stitch such as an open buttonhole (see fig.

  • It is a useful stitch when a jagged line is wanted, and can be seen used, for instance, for the branching veins in open work leaves, as in fig.

  • The greater part of the pieces are covered with pierced open work, and the motto of the Kings of Granada, "There is no conqueror but God.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "open work" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    actual warfare; burnt alive; cocoa beans; exercise authority; expedition from; human government; its original; never having; open book; open court; open field; open fields; open forest; open letter; open mind; open shame; open sight; open the; open them; open vessel; open water; opened fire; opened them; should have; through lack; ventral side