Delicately

//ˈdɛlɪkətli//

"Delicately" in a Sentence (13 examples)

She is delicately constituted.

Do it delicately.

The thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a glittering metallic framework, scarcely larger than a small clock, and very delicately made. There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystalline substance.

That delicately bronzed skin, almost Oriental in its colouring, that raven hair, the large liquid eyes, the full but exquisite lips—all the stigmata of passion were there.

This issue is quite painful for Tom, so try to bring it up to him delicately.

Moli my "grandma" neighbour on Lulu Island has big fig trees in her backyard, and she delicately trims her front yard shrubs in the shape of stumpy circumcised penises, reminding of the old movie Caligula about ancient Roman times. She is Fijian of mixed Chinese and East Indian descent. She looks just like a Japanese woman. "Moli" means orange in Fijian.

Each underwent a ten-minute microsurgery barely 24 hours earlier, in temporary field hospitals where medical teams worked with assembly-line efficiency: making tiny slits in eyeballs, delicately removing cataracts, and inserting artificial lenses.

Ziri questioned Rima and tried to delicately find out the truth.

Scarcely more than half the stature of their predecessors, these beings were proportionally slight and lithe. Their skin was of a sunny brown, covered with a luminous halo of red-gold hairs, which on the head became a russet mop. Their golden eyes, reminiscent of the snake, were more enigmatic than profound. Their faces were compact as a cat's muzzle, their lips full, but subtle at the corners. Their ears, objects of personal pride and of sexual admiration, were extremely variable both in individuals and races. These surprising organs, which would have seemed merely ludicrous to the First Men, were expressive both of temperament and passing mood. They were immense, delicately involuted, of a silken texture, and very mobile. They gave an almost bat-like character to the otherwise somewhat feline heads. But the most distinctive feature of the Third Men was their great lean hands, on which were six versatile fingers, six antennae of living steel.

She lobbed the ball delicately over the defense.

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The gingerbread was delicately, if imprecisely, captured by the brushstrokes.

The intergrown foliage atop a xylosma hedge appears to be delicately balanced on long wooden fingers.

He approached the main subject delicately.

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