"delicate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In late fall, elk come down from the mountains to pick their way across gravel bars toward the water, on hooves impossibly delicate beneath their thick bodies.
- With an impossibly delicate gesture she presses her clenched hand, sheathed in a pale leather glove, to her chest as if it were a spiral brooch.
- Shop like royalty (or window-shop like mere mortals) for exquisite crystal and jewellery here, where the simplest ring - impossibly delicate - goes for €150.
- It was a broad blurred disc, deep crimson, streaked with spots and bands of sable, hazing at the edges into impossibly delicate coronal arabesques.
- The new regulations for London 2012, reducing team sizes and forcing certain riders to cover more than one event, will require an impossibly delicate juggling act.
- It was a fine face, an impossibly delicate body.
- The big right hand, large-knuckled and short-nailed, descended on the keys with an impossibly delicate touch.
- Her little body seemed impossibly delicate; a strong wind would shatter her, I thought.
- The courtyard, with its impossibly delicate spires, gargoyles and statuary, is accessible via a metal detector from rue aux Juifs; this is also the entrance to use if you'd like to sit in on a trial.
- The salad was served with an impossibly delicate vinegar dressing that was almost sweet but not quite.
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