- a baby's delicate skin.
- a delicate flavor.
- a delicate violin passage.
- a frail craft.
- a kite too delicate to fly safely.
- a surgeon's delicate touch.
- a touchy subject.
- almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments.
- delicate china.
- delicate negotiations with the big powers.
- fragile old bones.
- fragile porcelain plates.
- hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter.
- soft hands.
- the delicate wing of a butterfly.
- the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense.