Example sentences for: delicacy

How can you use “delicacy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The ideas he examines, often with insight and delicacy, have to do with things like past vs. future, loss of community, and excessive skepticism.

  • Note the characteristically airtight yet elliptical prose, the world-weary delicacy that records "the difference between a rule and a moral point" but commits neither to one nor the other.

  • Called garum, it was considered a great delicacy by Romans and Greeks alike.

  • Every great city is constructed around a principle all its own--a principle of brute strength in one case, of sensuous delicacy in another, of majesty somewhere else, and mad chaos elsewhere.

  • Forget about saving the whales: Time reports that the overfishing of sharks for fins (an Asian delicacy) and cartilage (mistakenly thought to prevent cancer) has brought several species to low population levels.


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