Example sentences for: delicately

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

  • Then she paced slowly off as if on a runway, each perfect paw straight in front of the other, haunches delicately swaying, tail holding its curve, peerless coat glittering in the sun.

  • The lives of saints Lawrence and Stephen are depicted in delicately subdued pinks and blues.

  • 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).

  • It is hard to find a logical explanation, yet these subtle distinctions are part of the spirit of our language, and it is this spirit that is easily destroyed forever, like a delicately balanced biotope, when people walk roughshod over it.

  • Whittled waists and prominent breasts were shaped by exquisitely cut and fitted jackets that curved over flaring hips, while sleek coils of hair supported delicately feathered hats.


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