A pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping the other way; it is used in weaving, masonry, parquetry, embroidery.
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Examples for "herringbone "
Examples for "herringbone "
1 I love the subtle details like the beautiful herringbone effect on the tiling.
2 Henceforth he will appear in neat herringbone , the neater pin stripe.
3 The dog makes great curlicues around my own, splay-footed, herringbone of a track.
4 He often dresses himself in pinstripes, windowpane plaids, herringbone tweeds.
5 The plane soared above herringbone pine forests as he pointed them towards Fairbanks, Alaska.
1 The parquet is the traditional oak herringbone pattern seen in old houses and convents.
2 Tamworth Castle contains some walls that were built by the Saxons in a herringbone pattern .
3 That's what the herringbone pattern 's all about.
4 They form a beautifully polished herringbone pattern in rich mahogany, glued to the floorboards below with hot bitumen.
5 They did, and saw that the thin cirrus clouds had also picked up that herringbone pattern along the course of the Beam .
6 Another said: "This is infuriating." Some users however were more interested in the parking method, which has been done in a herringbone pattern .
7 The two men had laid down a bed of gravel and leveled sand and now were setting the granite blocks in a handsome herringbone pattern .
8 The sky was already the colour of blueberry jelly, and two or three lighted riverboats drew herringbone patterns across the surface of the Mississippi.
9 "He isn't," said Hal; "he's somewhere east of Piccadilly, studying Phoenician Architecture, and the herringbone pattern on antique masonry."
10 (Mrs. Harper herself wore sharp-toed high heels, which she kept planted on the rug in a herringbone pattern to show off her trim ankles.)
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