Example sentences for: delicately

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

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

  • 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."

  • without the fluttering exuberance of his hands that come to rest, delicately, on my shoulders, as if to say: "Help tie the drawstring of my suit, shoulder my towel, fit these sandals to my feet and lead me to the pool

  • Quinta do Lago has one of the finest golf courses on the Algarve, which is designed delicately along the Ria Formosa Nature Preserve.

  • 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.


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