"delicate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- When one's life has hung by a delicate thread for years upon end, certain things are never forgotten.
- Still, once broken, the delicate thread of sleep could not be repaired.
- A delicate thread of red lace grew down the scabbed center of the wound.
- This was a most delicate thread ahead of him, dangerous more for its lures than its open threats.
- The delicate thread that holds it all together?
- A ruthless order cut across his line of contact, striking at the delicate thread with which he was playing the strangers in.
- Networks of delicate threads led away from these; dark shapes moved sluggishly within them.
- As she withdrew the cocoon, it came out as a long delicate thread of silk.
- Blood trickled from one ear and ran toward Ben in delicate threads.
- You must have read the newspapers enough to know that a man's political life hangs by a very delicate thread.
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