How to Use filigree in a Sentence

filigree

noun
  • The oboe plays a jaunty melody while the strings toss off fast filigree.
    — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Don’t look for toasty, brioche notes; this is a wine of filigree and finesse.
    — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The windows of the sunny space are topped with filigree in a nod to its design roots.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • The fine delicate filigree of lines at the corners of her eyes.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The gold filigree drop earrings were even on sale recently for less than $2!
    — Moniquejessen, PEOPLE.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Even in the hands of the greats, food scenes can seem less than central to a story, more filler or filigree than substance.
    — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The musical bits are worn lightly, less an anchor for the film than a sort of warm filigree traced on top.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The camera zooms in on spooky models, wearing skull makeup and what looks like face filigree.
    — Rachel Nussbaum, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Its gold curves and filigree rise above her shoulders, a stark symbol of luxury against a flat white wall.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The first dozen were modest, just the name of the winning team and year, gold filigree, a diamond or two.
    — Rich Cohen, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • This is the sort of flash and filigree that is shunned by Volkswagen and most other small-car builders.
    — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 17 Aug. 2020
  • This erotic filigree is at odds with the mound of paper that is the film’s visual centerpiece.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2020
  • The quaint, colored cottages with lace-like filigree on their windows were largely abandoned.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Some long-ago craftsman even thought to beautify the brass door hinges, some of which are etched with a delicate filigree design.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The $600 bottle is striking, with gold filigree and packed in a box with a French court print on the inside.
    — Gina Pace, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • But because the heart has its own needs too, some of those vessels form a filigree of coronary arteries that laces through the cardiac muscle.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
  • At first, mansaf might have had just a filigree of white rice over a bed of bulgur, a veil of brightness that imparted a worldly sense of refinement.
    — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
  • With the chards, Sonoma offers gossamer texture and filigree.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Or surround an Ansel Adams photograph in ornate gold filigree?
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Tuna is opaque, with faint filigrees of ivory fat; unagi is lush and lacquered sweetly, while octopus has a sausagelike snap.
    — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 3 May 2018
  • After a brass and percussion fanfare in the opening, the solo violin plays a carefree waltz adorned with filigree.
    — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2021
  • This deranged bit of filigree offers a demonic sourness to the proceedings.
    — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2020
  • What the films provide, as compensation, is a banquet of the decent and the sumptuous, where filigrees of gold float through the air and land on the silk of a dress.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Shoes were either Moorish sandals with upturned toes of gold filigree or Roman sandals whose soles were lined with grass (but not that kind).
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 6 July 2018
  • Nowadays, people can enjoy the exuberant paint schemes or the intricate filigree above the porch columns.
    — Steve Carney, latimes.com, 16 June 2018
  • If the beautiful ironwork pieces from Cox London and vintage filigree got together, this sconce would be their love child.
    — Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 7 Jan. 2026
  • At its best, Trying candidly lays bare the emotional filigree of failing to conceive a child and choosing to devote your life to a tiny stranger.
    — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Apr. 2020
  • There were lots of medieval velvet, gold filigree, and fur stoles in this collection, but Look 48 was powerful in a softer way.
    — Emily Farra, Vogue, 6 July 2017
  • After the mockup earns his approval, assistants trace it onto the canvas, then begin their painstaking work on the fashion, the flora, and the filigree.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • But status messages were just the golden filigree of the gorgeous AIM tapestry.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017

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