Verb (used with object) : He took his coffee laced with brandy.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : These shoes lace up the side. ,The teacher laced into his students.    From Dictionary.com. 

Foam went lacelike over the sapphire and emerald of its waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hokas Pokas]

The branches overhead made lacelike patterns against the starlit sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Glass] Reference

The leather was intricately tooled into a lacelike design as a border.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ill Met By Moonlight]

She could still see the lacelike white tracery it had left behind, more a memory than a scar.    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Ashes] Reference

At a distance, the small white flowers look daintily lacelike against the green background of the leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bloom Report | Seattle Metblogs] Reference

Almost the same phenomenon is true of Antwerp's lacelike spire, the great Gothic wonder of Cologne and, to a lesser extent, that of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

Ypres is full of interesting buildings, but its Hôtel de Ville and its Cloth Hall, with its lacelike façade, are easily the best.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

She motions to a wrinkled and jagged band of green, dunks her wide brush into the glue-and-water jar, swings across the petals without flattening their lacelike circles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Worst Thing I've Done] Reference

Since the middle of the 18th century, Meissen's most popular pattern has been "Blue Onion," in which each piece is covered with a lacelike pattern of blue vines and flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Porcelain for Kings] Reference

Having searched the forest for signs of motion, his eyes had come to a slender break in the trees -- where, seeming to hover against the powdered dome of stars, there loomed the lacelike tracery of a Nefalian tower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

Yes, that is what gives them their lacelike appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Insect Folk] Reference

The interior is exquisite with lacelike carvings inlaid with semiprecious stones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference

The lower half was delicately worked in a lacelike pattern, revealing an immense amount of patient labor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays] Reference

Carved horses 'heads, rude but recognizable, tuft the peak, and lacelike wood carving droops from the eaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russian Rambles] Reference

The relief was low and flat, the leaves sharp and crowded, and the effect rich and lacelike, rather than vigorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

Billy, entranced with the lacelike delicacy of the work, promptly captured it; whereupon Memba Sasa philosophically started another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Footprints] Reference

Close up, their lacelike patterns dissolve into abstract arrangements, proving just how dispensable drawing may be in representational work.    From Wordnik.com.  [artforum.com] Reference

She lay there under the cedars, gazing up through the delicate lacelike foliage at the blue sky, and she thought and wondered and did not care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riders of the Purple Sage] Reference

In town he was all white clad, a long fine linen robe reaching to his feet; and one of the lacelike skull caps he was so very skilful at making.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Footprints] Reference

First she placed some lilies behind the lamp on the table, forming with them a lofty lacelike screen which softened the light with its snowy purity.    From Wordnik.com.  [La faute de l'Abbe Mouret] Reference

Sébastien Ruys, about which long green stalks, with lacelike edges, or of the stiffness of carved bronze, bent toward the mirror as toward a stream of limpid water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

In the center of the rotunda Shah Jehan and his beloved wife are supposed to lie side by side in marble caskets, inlaid with rich gems and embellished by infinite skill with lacelike tracery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern India] Reference

It bites an opening through its silken walls, and out steps -- not the hungry, little, all-devouring aphis lion, but this elegant lady with her pale-green lacelike wings and her large, golden eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Insect Folk] Reference

She was white -- white as this lacelike foam that silvered the Mediterranean blue; but she had not gone forever, as he had thought when he likened her whiteness to the spindrift on the dark Channel waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Silence] Reference

It was dark in the room, except for the moon-rays which streamed through the lacelike open-work of stucco, above the shuttered windows, making jewelled patterns on the wall -- pink, green, and golden, according to the different colours of the glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Silence] Reference

At the back of the room, opposite to the French window which opened on to the roof, was an arched recess some four feet narrower than the rest of the room, ornamented with plaques of tiles, and delicate lacelike plaster-work above low windows which came to within a foot and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way of Ambition] Reference

"open-work" spire, such as that of Freiburg, is a German development of a Flamboyant idea, which had much aesthetically to commend it, its lacelike surfaces being often treated with great effectiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

Veiled beneath the lacelike cloud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar] Reference

A circular pool, festooned with lacelike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lani People] Reference

Skirt lacelike and beauteous in staining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula] Reference

A lacelike frill of foam.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.] Reference