Sentence examples for laced like from inspiring English sources
But was this the season to go off on vacation with girlish cotton dresses, legs laced like fish netting, even if the evocative image of Capri by the photographer François Halard created a stunning backdrop?
The dogs on the block gambol happily toward a puddle of urine to sniff and amplify, then sniff and be sniffed, twisting until their leashes are laced like ribbons on a Maypole.
But one pair of showstopping, bondage-inspired boots — which laced like a corset from the ankle all the way up to the bottom hem of a minidress, fastening a dense, textured netting that evoked the calligraphic squiggles of a Cy Twombly painting — almost made all the vixenlike dresses seem tame.
The surrounding area was teeming with temples: temples with Shiva Linga (vast phallic symbols) in them, like Prasat Thneng and Prasat Leung, and others (like Prasat Neang Khmau) in which the gnarled tree-roots and strangler figs laced, like a lattice-work, over them, looked as old as the stones.
Opt instead for clothes made from fine fabrics like silk, satin, high-quality lace (like Chantilly), cashmere, or modal.
The lace-like drapery surrounding the space, translucent with delicate filigree, is in fact the distended membrane of pig gut.
Slight differences also distinguish a couple of lamps with hanging clusters of glass grapes that form almost lace-like borders.
Behind lace-like stone façades, portraits of Queen Victoria hang beside murals of Maharaja-era magnificence in rooms as richly decorated as those of their royal counterparts.
Where once the Victorian novel was lace-like with decorous gaps and tactful silences, now it is packed hard with crude fact and dirty detail.
They can be recognised by their four transparent wings, which bear a lace-like network of veins and which gives them their name.
If you prefer ball-shaped species, there's the adorable Escobaria vivipara (left), whose entire surface is covered in a lace-like network of fine spines.
