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Example sentences for "delicately"

Lexicographically close words:
deliberative; delicacies; delicacy; delicat; delicate; delicates; delicatessen; delicatest; delices; deliciae
  1. Doubter, looking incredulously at a piece which he held in his hand.

  2. They are themselves the results of delicately accurate adjustments, which indicate the operation of a divine wisdom.

  3. They were delicately bound together, too, by a bright blue riband, fastened by a gold and turquoise pin.

  4. It was a remedy delicately intimated, but the intention fell upon a fine and ready ear.

  5. Deep thought was impressed upon his clear and protruding brow, and the expression of his grey sunken eyes, which were delicately arched, was singularly searching.

  6. He particularly recalled a number of "chocolate" trees, the marvelous growth which yields a more delicately flavored beverage than the cocoa-tree.

  7. A careful education in Paris, grafted upon a nature cruel to the core, produced the most delicately depraved disposition imaginable.

  8. She was in virginal white this evening, and her delicately modelled head was turned toward the door.

  9. Gleb, squatting in the dust, brushed his sheepskin delicately with the tips of his fingers.

  10. The face was not pale, yet the colour that was in her cheeks so delicately toned with the ivory-white of forehead and neck that she looked pale.

  11. He nibbled at a krenoj impaled delicately on a two-tined iron fork.

  12. The ends of the strings were fastened to delicately balanced steel bells that tinkled at the slightest touch.

  13. Nowhere are the necessities of life so easily supplied, or are men so delicately nurtured.

  14. The author saw a set of dominoes made out of native ebony wood by an African slave, which were of finer finish than machinery turns out, delicately inlaid with ivory from alligators' teeth, indicating the points upon each piece.

  15. It is old and picturesque, and is surmounted by a delicately carved and lofty canopy--the whole in marble.

  16. The section of both shafts is circular, but one of them is delicately twisted to a spiral curve on its upward course.

  17. Here the centre arch is very wide, has four stilted arches on the sides, the archivolts are all delicately carved, and small sculptured medallions are introduced in the spandrels.

  18. When I suggested you as the "Sapeur of modern progress," my dear Henry, I thought to convey delicately my appreciation, wrapped in graceful compliment.

  19. I have expressed, and still adhere to the opinion, that these pictures only come 'one step nearer pictures than a delicately tinted wall-paper.

  20. But they only come one step nearer pictures than delicately graduated tints on a wall-paper do.

  21. I have expressed, and still adhere to the opinion, that these pictures only come one step nearer than a delicately tinted wall paper.

  22. Judith pressed a delicately flushed cheek to Norah's, and attempted a butterfly kiss, which she evaded grimly.

  23. The silvery blond head against his shoulder was changed like the rest of her, a mass of delicately adjusted puffs and curls, but in the fast-fading light he saw only the soft, pale colour of her hair and the tender curve of her throat.

  24. The maples, in full leaf now and delicately green, shadowed the upward slant of smooth road alluringly.

  25. She made both her delicately shaded eyebrows an even splotchy black, admired the result, then suddenly rubbed it off, turned away from the mirror without a backward glance, and ran down into the hall.

  26. Next, I delicately approached the subject of the repurchase of Wharton Park.

  27. Mori, whose own kimono was a pattern of delicately shaded autumn leaves, was seated alongside Noda, while Ken was placed next to Tam.

  28. She watched as he ritually wiped a thin, delicately curved bamboo scoop with a folded cloth, first touching the handle, then the uptilted end, after which he balanced it atop the lacquer tea caddy.

  29. The blade was delicately curved, and its edge could probably still do damage.

  30. Francis is more delicately reflected in Jammes, a Catholic W.

  31. I wonder if there is any way of delicately introducing Germans into the conversation, and conveying to her that I have guessed about Dolly's husband and don't mind him a bit.

  32. I have to walk very carefully and delicately among her feelings.

  33. Why not, for instance, suppose they like Eminent Victorians, and that we three are going to sit of an evening delicately tickling each other with quotations from it, and gently squirming in our seats for pleasure?

  34. Madeline took up her sister's letter with a strange sensation of how easily sight of a crested monogram and scent of delicately perfumed paper could recall the brilliant life she had given up.

  35. One day she had happened upon Nels making biscuit dough in his wash-basin, and she had delicately and considerately introduced to him the idea of her new method.

  36. Her nose was delicately aquiline and very subtly and finely modelled, and she looked out upon the world with steady, grey-blue eyes beneath broad, level brows that contradicted in a large measure the hint of weakness below.

  37. The white marble which is used for the delicately pierced screens called jalee work is obtained from near Raialo, in Ulwar.

  38. The stone is a beautifully translucent material, delicately clouded with yellow and brown, and is greatly prized by French workmen.

  39. A person playing of his own accord makes the Piano slower and the Forte quicker; and a similar effect must be obtained by the mechanism of the instrument, but those shades in the time must be delicately managed.

  40. There were two easy chairs; Ruth sank delicately into one, and Denry took the other with precautions.

  41. At night in a corner of the drawing-room the Countess delicately but bluntly asked Nellie if she had been married long.

  42. The colt came delicately with outstretched neck and wide nostrils, fearing for his liberty, yet poking out his nose toward the extended palm on which there lay a piece of bread.

  43. They walked delicately in the darkness, the light guiding them, till they came to the ragged hedge at the foot of a long strip of cottage garden.

  44. The Night-Wind" is a delicately beautiful fragment of dreamy metaphor.

  45. Ashby, is an iconoclastic attack on that love of natural beauty which is inherent in every poetical, imaginative and delicately strung brain.

  46. One would not expect to find a Lady Macbeth in a delicately made little lady like yourself!

  47. If I had, as you delicately suggested, any hand in bringing about this consummation you so devoutly desired, what would you say?

  48. But as he is more delicately organized than other men, and sensible to pain and pleasure, both his own and that of others, in a degree unknown to them, he will avoid the one and pursue the other with an ardour proportioned to this difference.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "delicately" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    delicately; easily; gently; gingerly; softly; tenderly; weakly