Sentence examples for ask delicately from inspiring English sources

Why, I ask delicately, the red suit?

Ask (delicately) for information about their personal financial situations and about mistakes they've made in the past.

So why, I tried to ask delicately, does the city not act?

"Cremated?" Rabbi Lieberman asked delicately.

Would that work, we asked delicately?

He was asked, delicately, if he was perhaps the primary fruitcake enthusiast in the home.

There are some questions that can't be asked delicately, no matter how hard one tries.

We were standing in the gloaming, and there were his eyes and his blue jacket, and when I asked, delicately, if he would be sleeping in the Hamptons that night he looked as if I'd gone mad (how could he sleep anywhere but Manhattan, if he did sleep) and widened his eyes, and smiled, and said, emphatically, "No, chile!" Then he got on the train without looking back.

I'm going to ask this delicately.

Although I asked (politely, delicately) several times, their replies were always oblique.

Which is to say I asked, as delicately as possible, if they got fat.