How to Use openwork in a Sentence

openwork

noun

• This finish also appears on the back of the baseplate, which can be viewed from the watch’s openwork caseback.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2022
• The openwork diamond piece was ordered from Boucheron in 1921.
  — Jennifer Newman, Town & Country, 17 May 2022
• Flip the watch over for a view of its openwork caseback in polished titanium.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2022
• All of this impressive clockwork can, of course, be admired via the watch’s openwork dial and sapphire case.
  — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2023
• This year, the Dior Grand Bal Ruban features an openwork bow carved on the oscillating weight, swinging atop a dial with either a blue sunburst or a bed of pink and gold feathers.
  — Nazanin Lankarani, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2020
• In each case, the crowning feature is an openwork ensemble, cut from a single block of wood, dominated by a large male figure.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2022
• The sheets have tactility and an appealing openwork look.
  — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2021
• Designed as an openwork bandeau of foliage and flowers, set at the center with a cabochon emerald and with circular-cut sapphires and pink sapphire within the centers of the flowers.
  — Beth Bernstein, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• The butsudan are cabinets of lacquer and gilt, with openwork carvings of flowers and trees; the ihai are upright tablets of black lacquered wood, vertically inscribed in gold.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2017
• Many of the bones end up as jewelry or staffs carved in the distinctive flowing, openwork style of Maori art, which often features fierce and beautiful stylized human figures, spirals, and fishhooks.
  — National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2018
• With this openwork arrangement, De Bethune has highlighted the mechanics and created a new reading of the hour centered on the balance wheel at six o’clock, accompanied by the minute index on the periphery.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2022
• Delicately detailed, the fruitwood body is decorated with ivory and ebony fillets, with an openwork ivory rosette depicting a pair of doves embracing on a temple of love.
  — Hafsa Khalil, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
• As examples, Piccioli cites a skirt crafted from small squares of yellow cashmere, knotted together into an openwork grid, and a masterful trench coat in which the back flap somehow morphs into the sleeves.
  — Bridget Foley, Town & Country, 15 May 2021
• Which explains why the owners have happily taken up residence in a place where inky tropical hardwoods meet the glint of artfully distressed brass and the delicacy of lacy openwork screens.
  — Carlos Mota, ELLE Decor, 7 July 2023
• One of just 500 examples, the eye-catching timepiece features a reverse tourbillon and Jaeger-LeCoultre engravings on its openwork caseback.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2023
• Jasmine Savoy Brown in openwork diamond choker necklace.
  — Beth Bernstein, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
• It can be combined with cupboards housing appliances and internal or openwork storage compartments to create compact wall units.
  — Elle Decor Editors, ELLE Decor, 20 Apr. 2023
• Gold becomes almost unrecognizable in fantastically intricate, openwork designs that place a profusion of diamonds and gemstones as close to the skin as possible.
  — Sarah Royce-Greensill, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2023
• Although she’s primarily known as a poet, the show was rich in paintings, videos and monumental openwork weavings inspired by Andean Indigenous textiles, all reflecting her career-long eco-activist, pro-underdog politics.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024