DELICACY in a Sentence

Learn DELICACY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
93 example sentences for DELICACY, such as:
1. Her skin had the delicacy of a flower.
2. She spoke with delicacy of our recent loss.
3. Everyone admired the delicacy of her features.
4. He provided local delicacies for his guests' meal.
5. It requires a delicacy of feeling which they have not.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DELICACY
delicacy
 n.  something considered choice to eat
 n.  smallness of stature
Classic Sentence: (85 in 6 pages)
1  Again I had an opportunity of asking him a point blank question, and again my delicacy prevented me from forcing another man to confide in me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  Now he," said Mrs. Manresa, as if referring to the delicacy with which he did this, and imputing to him the same skill in writing, "writes beautifully.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
3  "No, sir: I had a delicacy," was the reply.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
4  But, I say we are all liable to mistakes and I should feel sensible of your delicacy, and grateful for it, if you would spare me these references to Harthouse.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
5  While indulging themselves in the pleasures of the table, they aimed at delicacy, but avoided excess, and were apt to attribute gluttony and drunkenness to the vanquished Saxons, as vices peculiar to their inferior station.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  She performed her task with a graceful and dignified simplicity and modesty, which might, even in more civilized days, have served to redeem it from whatever might seem repugnant to female delicacy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  She had none of Fanny's delicacy of taste, of mind, of feeling; she saw Nature, inanimate Nature, with little observation; her attention was all for men and women, her talents for the light and lively.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  It requires a delicacy of feeling which they have not.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  If others have blundered, it is your place to put them right, and shew them what true delicacy is.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  Here was again a want of delicacy and regard for others which had formerly so struck and disgusted her.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  He, who had married a daughter to Mr. Rushworth: romantic delicacy was certainly not to be expected from him.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
12  Her influence, or at least the consciousness and use of it, originated in an act of kindness by Susan, which, after many hesitations of delicacy, she at last worked herself up to.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
13  She was nice only from natural delicacy, but he had been brought up in a school of luxury and epicurism.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  He had never had an idea of throwing himself off; he had feared that he was thrown off, but knew not why, and delicacy had kept him silent.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
15  The reddleman had appeared conscious of as much, and, while Mrs. Yeobright looked in upon her, he cast his eyes aside with a delicacy which well became him.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
Example Sentence:
1  There is a matter of some delicacy which I would like to discuss.
2  She spoke with delicacy of our recent loss.
3  Her skin had the delicacy of a flower.
4  Everyone admired the delicacy of her features.
5  The sounds of Nature are detailed with great delicacy in this appeal, and we see that the Alps are referred to as desolate regions.
6  They have declared this week Shark Week, and are running events aimed at bolstering opposition to shark fin soup. Shark fin soup emerged as a culinary delicacy in the 1400s, during the Ming Dynasty.
7  He provided local delicacies for his guests' meal.
8  Julia Child's recipes enable amateur chefs to create savory delicacies for their guests.