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 $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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The door still had its metal filigree gate and marble steps.
  — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 24 May 2017
• 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 gold filigree drop earrings were even on sale recently for less than $2!
  — Moniquejessen, PEOPLE.com, 23 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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 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 engine and cars of the railroad had the distinctive curlicues and filigree of Emett’s illustrations.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 27 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• Despite the pampering and filigree, the E400 makes a power statement.
  — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• The lovers are carved in marble: Their perfect white forms perennially glimmer through the filigree of sun and foliage and water.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• Amid a lengthy review of lighting options, one of the homeowners zeroed in on a pair of Moroccan filigree lanterns and a lightbulb went off for Loew.
  — Robert Rufino, House Beautiful, 6 Oct. 2022
• Silver-gilt filigree candelabras, bronze sculptures, a Boulle-style desk with brass inlay, and an ebony cabinet on a stand, which was made in a Paris workshop in the 1600s, round out the space.
  — Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful, 15 June 2021
• 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
• The quaint, colored cottages with lace-like filigree on their windows were largely abandoned.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022
• The winner’s call was made of walnut, maple and African blackwood with inlayed sterling silver scrolling and filigree highlights.
  — Colin Moore, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2020
• 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
• 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
• But status messages were just the golden filigree of the gorgeous AIM tapestry.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• It’s here that the vibe relaxes and the picture’s filigree becomes brighter and wittier as extras with puffball hairdos straight out of Dr. Seuss light up the background.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 1 Nov. 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

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024