delicately

Example Sentences

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Then he delicately takes the leather box and places it on the coffee table.

From Literature

The paint is splotchy in places and the photographs are pinned delicately to a dark surface, their edges curling, giving the overall installation a textured materiality.

From Los Angeles Times

And this year, if the delicately reunited U.K. duo Oasis was to pull things together for 2026 and play the Super Bowl, it most certainly wouldn’t inspire the same kind of vitriol.

From Los Angeles Times

Opening its jaws, it took Jeremy's fingertip delicately between its teeth, then shook its head gently from side to side before letting go.

From Literature

A beautiful Audubon matching game with delicately illustrated birds.

From Salon