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Example sentences for "more delicate"

  • There are a great many kinds of Erigeron, widely distributed, most abundant in the New World, easily confused with Asters, but usually with numerous and finer rays, so that the effect is more delicate.

  • I found a very beautiful white form at Lost Lake, in Yosemite, more delicate, with lighter green foliage and pure white corollas, ringed with yellow and maroon.

  • Grand Canyon, is somewhat similar, but the flowers are smaller and more delicate, and the leaves are smooth, small, and narrow.

  • In exposed pools the plants are short and densely branched; in sheltered places they are larger and more delicate in texture.

  • It resembles a simple form of /Chondrus crispus/, but is more delicate.

  • Those coming from "outside" have thinner, more delicate shells, with thin, concentric ribs.

  • The Cottage is of better quality than its parent having far less foxiness and a richer, more delicate flavor.

  • The flavor, to most palates, is richer, more delicate, and lacks the acidity of some American grapes and the foxiness of others.

  • Its flesh is more delicate, fatter, and more juicy than that of ours.

  • The Magpye resembles those of Europe in nothing but its cry; it is more delicate, is quite black, has a different manner of flying, and chiefly frequents the coasts.

  • The Wild Ducks are fatter, more delicate, and of better taste than those of France; but in other respects they are entirely the same.

  • You are right, darling, but I must be more delicate.

  • I have never seen a more sumptuous or more delicate repast.

  • Women have a more delicate, a surer tact than men, and her last words were a home-thrust for me.

  • It would have been impossible to announce the success of my suit in a more delicate or more perspicuous manner.

  • The production of the invisible points requires a more delicate process, a finer grade of skill than the cutler possesses.

  • What an infinite satisfaction comes from beginning early in life to cultivate our finer qualities, to develop finer sentiments, purer tastes, more delicate feelings, the love of the beautiful in all its varied forms of expression!

  • At first the artist is content to use in his drawing the strong line work of the preceding period, but as the century proceeds this becomes rather more delicate, and he begins to feel his way towards modelling in half-tones.

  • It is here that the respect we owe to others calls for a more delicate and a more strict sense of justice: for this sort of slavery is not so obvious, and the love we bear to others may be the very thing to lead us into error.

  • In the second case, the question is a more delicate one.

  • The duty here becomes more and more delicate.

  • With a more delicate galvanometer, an excellent swing of the needle could be obtained by one discharge of the battery.

  • A] It is just possible that this case may, by more delicate experiment, hereafter disappear.

  • With these adjustments and the use of iodide of potassium on paper, chemical action is sometimes a more delicate test of electrical currents than the galvanometer (273.

  • His close comrade was of more delicate fiber, a gentle soul, not made for soldiering at all, but rather for domestic life, with children about him, and books.

  • That is how they seemed to me, in a general way, though among them were boys of a more delicate fiber, and sensitive, if one might judge by their clear-cut features and wistful eyes.

  • Moreover, the man in her strengthens and intelligises her mental fibre, stiffens and renders more stable and effective her more pliant will and softer, more delicate aptitudes.

  • It has been said that the "hardening" process for children succeeds in rearing sturdy families, by killing off those of more delicate (and higher) organisation.

  • Her left hand is more delicate of form, gentler and more soothing of motion than her right hand is.

  • Time was when the best men reverenced women as beings of more delicate calibre, to be shielded from the rougher and grosser contacts of life.

  • The fruit is better in quality than that of its parent, having less foxiness and a richer, more delicate flavor.

  • The European varieties are better flavored, possessing a more delicate and a richer vinous flavor, a more agreeable aroma, and are lacking in the acidity and the obnoxious foxy taste of many American grapes.

  • No European grape has a richer or more delicate flavor, or a more pleasing aroma, than Delaware.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "more delicate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    more acquaintance; more appropriate; more before; more certain; more common; more delicate; more delightful; more easily; more effectual; more eligible; more exact; more formidable; more fully; more general; more moderate; more nearly; more often; more practical; more rapid; more rarely; more simple; more specifically; more usual; more usually; more work; severe defeat