Sentence examples for delicate creature from inspiring English sources

A delicate creature, he could not find food, or feed himself if he stumbled across some.

The singer, born Chan Marshall, is a delicate creature, to put it mildly.

For all its desert toughness, the Joshua tree is a delicate creature.

This, she reckons, is the crucial difference between Heartburn and Margaret Cook's slash-and-burn memoir, A Slight And Delicate Creature.

And, if you're anything like me, you'll also discover you've got something of a headache: the James sentence is, as Wells famously described it, "a delicate creature swathed in relative clauses as an invalid in shawls".

Equally, the clenched fist is a reminder in the age of a triumphal Jean-Marie Le Pen across the Channel that democracy is a delicate creature that needs to be fought for; the metaphor made me think of the battle of Cable Street that took place just across Tower Bridge from City Hall.

I felt increasingly oafish among such delicate creatures.

It gets caught on pieces of coral and either breaks or smothers these delicate creatures.

Thus, many delicate creatures were not consumed by scavengers or torn apart by currents.

For Jeffrey Glassberg '93LAW, preserving humankind's connection to these delicate creatures has been a life mission.

"We wish to honor women with this ban, because they are delicate creatures".