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How to use the word delicate in a Sentence?

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In the delicate dance of words, a poem reveals the beauty and complexity of the human experience, inviting us to ponder, reflect, and find solace in its lyrical embrace.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

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6 months ago

Life is a delicate dance between holding on and letting go, finding balance in the ever-changing rhythms of existence.~ Aloo Denish

Aloo Denish

added by Aloo-Denish
9 months ago

We are in a situation with inflation elevated and now a banking crisis on top of that, the Fed’s attempt to strike a delicate balance between price stability, employment and financial stability will require something to give. And that something is going to be right around 1.5 million jobs, if the Fed’s forecast is prescient for the [4.5%] unemployment rate.

Joe Brusuelas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Earth is nothing but phlegm spat out by the Sun, and our immediate solar system a whirlwind of boulders. There is no delicate balance.

A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

It prompted many airlines that were in a delicate financial situation to give up, most of those that failed in 2020 were likely to have gone out of business anyway, just a bit later. Many were either airlines that had had issues for quite some time, or fragile ventures that lacked the scale and scope to compete with large operators.

Miquel Ros

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Your soul is as delicate as a face in the clouds blown in a hurricane for hours and hours.

Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
1 year ago

Your love is like the trees gently blowing through my mind. You heart is streamed with leaves delicate as the seasons. Your soul is as the memory of all that heaven divulges.

Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
1 year ago

Atmospheres of light shine in your eyes and so my dear sun, I hear your cries as you melt the rain from our delicate skies with a love so great there can be no goodbyes.

Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
1 year ago

There's a delicate balance between security and customer convenience.

Adrian Beck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's a very delicate move, we don't want to alienate [ our core customers ].

Pedro Silveira

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My daughters and I were practicing — I play polo a lot; along time ago people would say, how can you afford it?I played with the worst horse on the planet, but I learned and eventually after I made money, I started to go into...barrel racing. It's very, very delicate, and I brought my daughters into it and Taylor Sheridan was at the same barn, and he hadn’t made it yet.

Sylvester Stallone

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think certainly the Russian government is playing a very delicate game here, there's obviously a line that they don't want to cross and force this company out completely.

Alina Polyakova

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's a very impressive discovery, as giant azhdarchid pterosaur bones are so thin and delicate and very few are found, particularly since they live in inland environments.

James Kirkland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I recall his diligent work alongside so many of my predecessors, who entrusted him with important responsibilities in the Vatican diplomacy, up to the delicate office of secretary of state.

Pope Francis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Israel's surrounded by enemies, Iran, Hezbollah out of Syria, Gaza, so I just think that they have a very delicate geopolitical balance that they need to keep, a lot of the strikes they conduct and things and activities that have to do against Iran in that region require deconflicting with the Russians, so there just in a tough spot. There's just some realities to their position, their vulnerability.

Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The circumstances around my parents’ sudden passings have become fodder for press, and there are some misconceptions rolling around - understandably so, this is very delicate for me to write because i’m wanting to honor their privacy, which they held so tightly. there’s an awful irony in the fact that, because of the very lengths they went to in order to protect their privacy in life - that privacy has been stripped away in death.

Alicia Witt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is not good policy for the United States Senate to allow Ted Cruz to break us from our transatlantic partners in the middle of a delicate negotiation over the future of US-Russia, and Europe-Russia policy.

Chris Murphy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We try to strike a very delicate balance between the interests of the (company), the sustainability required by generic producers and most importantly, the public health needs in lower and middle-income countries.

Esteban Burrone

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's a very delicate balance to draw when you want to actually be in court, versus when you want to negotiate and try to make sure that the government understands the perspective that you're bringing, because I do think you can lose a lot of control when you end up in litigation.

Vijaya Gadde

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is the most delicate moment.

La Valle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’m just praying for the young man, personally, today. I’m praying for him and his family. I’m praying for the young ladies that have come out. This is not good for anybody, forget the sport, but I think we’ve learned that every situation’s different. They’re delicate. You make sure that folks, whether it’s the accuser, the victim, whoever it may be, that there’s a due process in place. And I think we’ve learned that over time, not that we’ve rushed in the past, but I think we’ve learned from the different cases that we’ve seen with this particular subject matter, let the due process take care of itself, then that’s up to Lisa [Friel, NFL special counsel for investigations] and her team to now make the proper recommendations to what direction the commissioner and the commissioner’s office should take.

Troy Vincent

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Going back to my Yale days when I was a lowly fellow inside of a molecular biology lab, I had to work with RNA myself, he tells NPR. And RNA is something which is very, very delicate and it can be inactivated, just like — we used to joke — just by looking at it the wrong way.

David Gortler

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3 years ago

'some people look, but they don't see, for to see means to have feelings,like the delicate touch, as when your tongue can find a tiny fish bone hidden within the morsel of food in your mouth. No eyes required remember this!

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by RASCARDOFROMTRENCHTOWN
3 years ago

I think it's time to move forward, it's a very difficult subject. It's also delicate.

Terry Francona

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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    a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect
    A render
    B famish
    C affront
    D efface