Example sentences for: subtly

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

  • Even at the corners of the mouth, the phony smile betrays itself by being subtly lopsided: Involuntary expressions, arising in the lower, unitary brain, affect both sides of the mouth equally, but willed expressions are governed by the cerebral hemispheres, the dominant of which sends a stronger signal.

  • But, on the contrary, she subtly provides the psychological continuity between these two aspects of her character.

  • It is not surprising that my first exposure to non-Brits was in France, where I soon reconciled myself to a Gallic attack on my personal hygiene when they insisted on addressing me as Miss Your Soap, subtly intoned, I always thought, with an interrogatory inflexion.

  • Rubin subtly enhances his own reputation for perfection by talking frequently about his imperfections.

  • Having proved that he is a sentient human being, he subtly points his questioner in a different direction--weren't practices similar to this one actually common under previous presidents?


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