Example sentences for: delicacy

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

  • To the ancient Mexicans, the maguey plant was considered sacred, and the fact that the worm had ingested a part of the “spirit” of this revered plant made consuming them both a delicacy and a way to obtain good luck.

  • Mitchell, who has built his business on the delicacy of his palate (he was profiled last week in the New York Times as the prime supplier of the city's high-end fish), speaks with the understated authority of a master craftsman.

  • For the private client, there are still masterpieces of rare delicacy and breathtaking beauty or exquisitely simple practicality, all made possible by the materials and hand-workmanship available to couture houses, and conceived by designers modifying their ideas to suit each client's taste and figure.

  • Their streamlined edges help create a new mood in de Kooning's art, one of delicacy, radiance, and calm.

  • 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.


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