Example sentences for: exquisite

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

  • Major figures from Greek history, including Pericles, were buried here and their funerary artifacts are some of the most exquisite items found during excavations around the city.

  • They contained whatever was the biggest, the smallest, the rarest, the most exquisite, the most bizarre, the most grotesque.

  • Important guests were received in the exquisite Bale Kambang, a pavilion surrounded by water to give the appearance that it is floating among the water lilies.

  • In any case, as if still unsatisfied, around these tones Roth has orchestrated a still vaster range of side topics--ethnic sociology (Jews, blacks, Irish, WASPs, intermarriage), industrial history (glove-making craftsmanship and its decline, recounted at length), political debate (the crimes of Presidents Johnson and Nixon, the migraine rhetoric of Angela Davis), and more, some of it rendered with exquisite precision, which is fun to read.

  • The nomadic traveler Lafcadio Hearn compared it to an inverted half-open fan, or "some exquisite sloping of shoulders toward the neck."


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