Example sentences for: delicately

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

  • At the top of the hill, on Rua da Igreja, is Igreja Matriz, a charming 16th-century church, with a delicately carved Manueline portico, perhaps the finest on the Algarve, and excellent 18th-century azulejos in the chancel.

  • At holy places you’ll find Ethiopian Christians and Jews wrapped in delicately handwoven white robes.

  • Skirted with geometric tiling, the walls and roof are overlaid with delicately shaped plaster stalactites, reaching 18 m (60 ft) to the carved and painted wooden ceiling.

  • Second were the Mexicans who continued to migrate into California during the nineteenth century, and these people, as Espinosa delicately put it, were “gente de mas baja condición y cultura” (people of a lower condition and culture) (1930, 301).

  • Critics can't say enough good things about the film: It is "audacious, accomplished" (Emanuel Levy, Variety ), "a delicately conceived, fearless film" that is like "a long tragic poem" (David Denby, The New Yorker ), "one of the year's best" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). The New York Times ' Maslin calls it a "stunning debut feature" for director Kimberly Peirce, and Entertainment Weekly 's Owen Gleiberman calls Hilary Swank, a Beverly Hills 90210 veteran who plays Brandon, "extraordinary."


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