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How to use delicately in a sentence

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Comtesse de Bouchaud is a fairylike thing, with white petals edged lavender, delicately curled.
He looked unkempt and in some distress as he stepped delicately from his car wearing blue pyjama bottoms, slippers and a collarless white shirt.
But amongst the books were also handwritten journals, and she even found a delicately drawn out family tree.
Here is her contribution, as delicately phrased as one might expect in such an august literary journal.
She had layered, raven black hair which framed her delicately featured face.
The same woman waited until the delicately poised last chords of Mahler's slow movement to get up and leave.
There were handsome ships anchored in the harbor, many-sailed with delicately carved figureheads.
The tears were still fresh in her eyes, balancing delicately as they rippled across her eyes, filmy and scared.
Who am I to interpose in the delicately poised quadrille of consumers and the fulfillers of dreams?
Daisy has a fragility that is beautifully conveyed in her delicately ungainly first-person narration.
The art is delicately done on a textured paper and a fixative is applied before mounting.
After that time, you can take a peek, and check delicately that the fish flesh flakes easily.
My mother bought me some earlier in the year and it is a very delicately flavoured tea.
Smiling caterers, in long white robes, served delicious spiced lamb, chicken, mounds of delicately flavoured rice and plump dates and figs.
A delicately stitched 19th century sampler conveys the idea of women's handiwork and family bonds.
This is the most delicately flavoured rhubarb there is, cosseted and pampered to keep its subtlety.
A side order of courgette fritters might have been more delicately and less greasily battered but this too was enjoyable in a chipshop way.
It was composed of remnants, fragments, collages, woven together delicately with words.
Stone tools include delicately made blades, microburins, burins, scrapers, and adzes.
The pastry was delicately flaky, rich and buttery but not overwhelmingly so, and the frangipane was soft, flavorful and simply marvellous.
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In spite of the camp's curiosity, for the next few days they delicately withheld their usual evening visits to prossy's mother.
Judith pressed a delicately flushed cheek to Norah's, and attempted a butterfly kiss, which she evaded grimly.
She had nothing to do but neatly and delicately paste on the bit she had snipped off.
Shake free from water, chop fine and put in a hot sauce pan, salt delicately and heat with butter and cream.
The slighter the strain on the springe, the more delicately can its mechanism be set.
She was a Welshwoman of the pure blood, therefore delicately mannered by nature.
She is what is delicately called a strapper, rosy-armed as the morning, and not a little of an Aurora about the ankles.
Though intended for the delicately humorous the triolet is sober-going enough to carry a thread of sentiment.
It has a close helmet from which the hair, delicately parted on the forehead, half escapes.
How delicately flushed she was and how her gray eyes were lustered with joy of the evening, or perhaps with fortunate tidings.
No after-theatre corner of Broadway had a crisper American accent of vice, or displayed vice itself more delicately lacquered.
For the duty even of a swabber, he does not consider himself too high, but washes the deck most delicately clean.
Mr dawks laboriously remounted the staircase and scratched delicately at his mistress's bedroom door.
And this faded purple, this dawnlike tint, so delicately soft, was in truth exquisite.
I cannot see any more, because, as I have delicately suggested, I am a heavy man.
The calyxes and buds are downy and the flowers bright pink or rose-purple, delicately veined.
A delicately dotted black line runs on the canthus rostralis from the opening of the nose to the corner of the eye.
He glides delicately over the character of the conspiracy to kill Riccio, and manages to veil the real motives.
The little things, he continued, delicately perforating the atmosphere as though selecting a diatom.
From this salience her small chin retreated delicately into her pink throat.
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