Example sentences for: delicate

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

  • Also look for the elegant Hercules and Telephus and four delicate portraits of women, including Artimedes and the Flower Gatherer.

  • In 1981, at the dawn of the stealth era, James Fallows warned in National Defense that "airplanes, tanks, ships and missiles have grown too complex, expensive and delicate to be useful in warfare or credible for deterrent purposes."

  • But the most perfect garment is a sleeveless black dress of tough synthetic net, ornamented with inspired beading and delicate black leather appliqués that rise from the hem in black flames (maybe seaweed) around the thighs and pelvis and descend from the neckline in uneven black clusters of grapes (maybe clouds) over the breasts and shoulders.

  • A delicate rock crystal rhyton on display here shows the sophistication of both workmanship and personal taste in the New-Palace period.

  • It has a sweet, delicate fragrance, unlike the heady odor some narcissuses give off.


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