Example sentences for: subtler

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

  • He died because he had been unjustly imprisoned for five years, which is a subtler kind of foul play.

  • But there is a primary virtue to this book, subtler than its other traits, and this primary virtue is to be, ever so quietly, heartbreaking.

  • Though it lacks the simple, geometric form of Sapper's pot and those of many of its competitors, it is unified in a subtler way.

  • Bernard Malamud, in The Ghost Writer , involves a subtler form of backstabbing: the unkind portrait masquerading as homage.

  • 3) The court upheld a law imposing decency standards for federal arts grants . The media focused on allegations that the court was firing a shot across the bow of artists--overshadowing the subtler theory that the court was actually firing a shot across the bow of Congress.


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