delicate
Example Sentences
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Cruz and other researchers suspect that additional species once existed but left remains too delicate to survive long enough to be discovered.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
It's delicate and gorgeous and strangely intimate in a room of 20,000 people.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Striking the right balance in professional attire can be a delicate combination of expressing personal style and “reading the room.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
There were only arid steppes in sight when a small plane took off from an airport in southern Kazakhstan, embarking on a delicate mission: bringing rain for the scorched earth below.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Uncle Kufa didn’t understand the delicate trading that had gone on under his nose.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing delicate
The Diary of Anne Frank
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Bridge to Terabithia
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