delicately
Example Sentences
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As Ms. Aikin ably traces, successive librarians have delicately navigated the library’s continually expanding national role.
She winces as a small cannula is delicately inserted into her cheek.
From BBC
But Guiteau couldn’t partake in what Makowsky delicately called the “benefits” of such a society, largely because his delusions of grandeur alienated him from others there.
From Los Angeles Times
The image is, typically for the film, delicately beguiling.
Their triumphalism is accelerating my now-chronic unease over the sense that the strict lines of our delicately balanced republic are being washed away.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
