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• Each illustration was protected by a glassine page that had to be turned delicately.2024, Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley, Atlantic Books (2025), page 7. From the entry glassine
• Planks of crispy, "chilly" potatoes and elegant, delicately flavored shrimp Sunnaina in white-wine garlic-tomato concassé are hits.2014, Jennifer Olvera, “Suburban Stunners, Stalwarts & Surprises”, in Amy Lyons, editor, Food Lovers’ Guide to Chicago: The Best…. From the entry chilly
• Instead, delicately cut out shapes had been sewn onto an undercloth, with fine embroidery worked over them.2012, Alison Goodman, The Necklace of the Gods, page 165. From the entry undercloth
• Moreover it identified the spider who minced so delicately along the wide-flung strands of the sodomitical web.2005, Mark Caldwell, New York Night, page 133. From the entry homosexuality
• But several people have complained about my references to what we might delicately call her plumpitude.1999 May 26, Tom Shales, “Monica sought her own publicity”, in Enterprise-Record, 146th year, number 195, page 10A, column 1. From the entry plumpitude
• Frank's Biro taps delicately at the topmost of the little yellow notes.1993, Iain Banks, Complicity, published 2008, unnumbered page. From the entry biro
• I would like to have heard his intonation delicately nuanced so as to carry the greatest punch.1989, R. Kent Hughes, Preaching the Word: 1-9:1. From the entry nuanced
• He moved the boat onward very slowly, lipping the glossy surface delicately with the light oars.1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, page 405. From the entry lip
• The croupier delicately faced her other two cards with the tip of his spatula.1963, Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service. From the entry face
• The engine caught, spluttered, and roared as Tom choked the car delicately.1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 26, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, published 1962, page 492. From the entry choke
• A Eurasian-looking model with black hair and blue eyes delicately stroked her cheek in a paean of self-care.2018, Ling Ma, chapter 8, in Severance, →ISBN. From the entry Eurasian
• They glee in bullet-pointing a mere few how-to’s, delicately masking any and all complexities; carefully dismissing the difficulties involved.2016, Wynston Alexander Wilson, Antidotes for Adversity: 21 Effective Ways to Get Through Life’s Toughest Challenges, Createspace, →ISBN…. From the entry bullet-point
• My favorite Greek cheese is the creamy, sheepy manouri: delicately scented and almost spreadable, it’s like a softer, pudgier feta.2007 September 9, Sara Dickerman, “Olympic Dinners”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2017. From the entry soft
• The result: a dish that features polenta cut into triangles and delicately complemented by sweet, diced prunes and a marsala sauce.1988 June 24, Charlie White, “Restaurant Tours: Sole Mio's shining start”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry marsala
• The voice she heard was slowly rough and delicately brutal, like stones being rattled in a can of ribbon cane syrup.1966, J. J. Phillips, chapter 1, in Mojo Hand, Berkeley: City Miner Books, published 1985, page 8. From the entry ribbon cane
• Delicately flavoured products and foodstuffs can on storage be treated with aerosol without any danger of contamination, staining and disflavouring.1945, Indian Journal of Applied Chemistry. From the entry disflavour
• The flowers are delicately blue with white tubes and are clustered on graceful stems a foot tall or less.1926, Edith S. Clements, Flowers of Mountain and Plain, 3rd edition, New York: The H. W. Wilson Company. From the entry Jacob's ladder
• This brings out and blends the delicately delicious ham and bacon flavors without drying out the natural juices and without oversaltiness.1907 December 28, “The Epicure's Ham”, in The National Provisioner, volume 37, number 26, page 7. From the entry oversaltiness
• Several specimens were found, all of which belong to Kirchner's variety subtile, the cytoderm being delicately punctate over the whole surface.1904, Alexander William Evans, Hepaticae of Alaska, volume 5, page 168. From the entry cytoderm
• A bra hung from the side of her computer monitor, and Renee delicately tossed it on the bed before logging into the desktop.2020, Katlyn Duncan, Barefoot on the Beach, London: HQ, HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry log into
• Château Dereszla, meanwhile, blends muscat and hárslevelű for a more perfumed dry style that reminded me of delicately floral honey drizzled on apricots.2016 August 14, David Williams, “The rise of furmint”, in The Guardian. From the entry hárslevelű
• Using the tips of my fingers, I delicately removed the piping hot tray from Chef Mike and popped it on a plate.2015, Allison Spie, Soothsayer: Magic Is All Around Us. From the entry Chef Mike
• One of the simplest ways to achieve such a rizotto: Fry one cup Uncle Ben's Converted Rice in 3 tablespoons butter until delicately brown.1955, House Beautiful (volume 97, part 1, page 203). From the entry rizotto
• In early March the almonds are in flower, delicately pink, and there are washes of bright daffodils beneath the orchard trees; you can see women gathering them for market.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 3. From the entry almond
• The first time they meet, he delicately touches his prey, surveying the surface of her body, from her incipient pubic hair to her unnaturally large toes.2004 October 26, Ilan Stavans, “Love: ageless in its power”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications…. From the entry large toe
• The number isn't a toedance, the entire project is preposterous, and then, having shown us how delicately she can work, she proceeds to tap on the toes.1997, More Opening Nights on Broadway. From the entry toedance
• Swerving and twisting away from the misty lower air, he rises to the first faint warmth of sun, feels delicately for winghold on the sheer fall of sky.1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 39. From the entry winghold
• Today the prune comes to you just as healthful and vitaminful as ever—but with a face lifted and a kiss delicately implanted by a California sun.1933 July 6, “Lowly Prune Stages Real Comeback”, in The Wisconsin State Journal, volume 142, number 95, Madison, Wis., page 12. From the entry vitaminful
• The buyer squeezes the sliver of cheese between his fingers to test its consistency, sniffs it, and then tastes it as delicately as if it were the most subtle caviar.1972, Félix Martí-Ibáñez, The mirror of souls, and other essays, page 339. From the entry sliver

Meaning of delicately

1. adverb In a delicate manner; exquisitely.
2. adverb Tactfully.

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Questions about delicately in a sentence

How do you use delicately in a sentence?

Delicately is used as an adverb. For example: “The gingerbread was delicately, if imprecisely, captured by the brushstrokes.”

What is a short sentence with delicately?

“He approached the main subject delicately.”

What does delicately mean?

Delicately means in a delicate manner; exquisitely.