Fretted Sentence Examples

For keyed or fretted instruments a compromise is indispensable.

The necessity of devising compromises with men who had formerly been his tools fretted him both in mind and body.

France, and was fretted almost beyond endurance by the quarrels of Federalist politicians over the distribution of commissions.

Thence over the whole southward stretch to Mizen Head in county Cork is found that physical appearance of a cliff-bound coast fretted with deep fjord-like inlets and fringed with many islands, which throughout the world is almost wholly confined to western seaboards.

The west coast, on the other hand, including both shores of the great south-western promontory, is minutely fretted into capes and bays, headlands and inlets of every size, and an island-group lies off each of the more prominent headlands from Land's End northward.

On the highest ground in the city rises the cathedral, the interior of which was built after his death according to the plans of Giulio Romano; it has double aisles, a fine fretted ceiling, a dome-covered transept, a bad baroque façade, and a large unfinished Romanesque tower.

Within, the palace is unsurpassed for the exquisite detail of its marble pillars and arches, its fretted ceilings and the veil-like transparency of its filigree work in stucco.

The B, G, and D strings are played open, meaning they are not fretted at all.

My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day."

Both are versions of the small ' German ' fretted clavichord.

If fretted clavichords were made at all, they were definitely'second best ' .

The plateaux are separated from each other and their frequently dramatic margins are fretted by often fault-guided, steep-sided glens.

Who among us has not, while composing a " Dear John " letter, fretted over whether to hyphenate " chronic halitosis "?

On the highest ground in the city rises the cathedral, the interior of which was built after his death according to the plans of Giulio Romano; it has double aisles, a fine fretted ceiling, a dome-covered transept, a bad baroque façade, and a large unfinished Romanesque tower.

The approach to playing fretless bass is much more like playing upright bass than to fretted bass.

These numbers indicate where on the neck the strings should be fretted.

The chords are all in first position, or fretted within the first four frets on the guitar, but they can be slid up the guitar neck creating different chords out of the same chord structure.

The high E string should be fretted at the third fret.

The A string is fretted at the second fret, and the low E string is fretted at the third fret.

The peninsula of Nova Scotia, connected by a narrow neck with New Brunswick, is formed by still another and more definite system of parallel ridges, deeply fretted on all sides by bays and harbours.

The wonderful mosaics, the wooden roof, elaborately fretted and painted, and the marble incrustation of the lower part of the walls and the floor are very fine.