Example sentences for: delicately

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

  • I answered much the way I had answered more delicately phrased objections in Arkansas and north Louisiana: I told how, for example, a fisherman would be able to check the Dictionary if he caught a mudfish in Florida and wanted to find out what the real name of it was.

  • 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.

  • Treading delicately around the Paula Jones case, the commentariat giggled like schoolchildren over a recent poll proclaiming that public television watchers have more sex than most.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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