"delicate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This capacity to expand prevents the food bolus from rupturing the delicate epithelial layer while assisting the passage of food through the gut.
- Although his many dresses in delicate layers of black chiffon and tulle were beautiful, it was largely a surface beauty.
- Minogue appears on pedestal, which arises from a delicate layer of water.
- The glistening metallic lustre of the whole exterior is largely though not entirely due to the erosion of the delicate external layer of the shell.
- We see not only the delicate grey layers of the paintings but also the precise remaining white parts where the artist makes his greatest effort.
- These white blood cells form a network in the epidermis, the skin's delicate outer layer, which is about the thickness of a sheet of plastic wrap.
- He licked softly and gently in long, loving swipes, and was amazed to find how quickly she opened to him, layer upon delicate layer.
- The retina is delicate, "about as strong as one layer of wet Kleenex," he said.
- Her mixed media works are made with delicate layers of acrylic paint and color pencil on the surfaces of old books or other bric-a-brac objects.
- Molnar said and then described watching a relative form the delicate layers of pastry for strudel.
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