Sentence examples for delicate life from inspiring English sources

The sprinkling of water would have destroyed the delicate life.

The delicate life of the family living in the marsh is shattered by the attacks.

Julia Blackburn's Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske is published by Jonathan Cape.

I brought them back three times after that, carefully considering which days to wear them to preserve their delicate life span.

But as the piece progresses, Marin layers in more expressively individual detail – a larky smile, a jaunty caper, a gesture of stoic tenderness – that bring each dancer's personality to comic and delicate life.

I will be taking Instrumental by James Rhodes (Canongate £16.99) because I like his electric energy, Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske by Julia Blackburn (Jonathan Cape £25), which I have already read but it's my favourite book of the year, and Remembered for a While (John Murray £35), a beautiful book about Nick Drake compiled by his sister, Gabrielle.

As a wedding-anniversary present one year, she gave her husband a delicate life-size model of a cockroach.

It consists of a delicate, life-size human skull made of household dust fitted over the business end of a synthetic feather duster.

Simultaneously I was making delicate life-end decisions for my mother.

I was a six-year-old without experience holding a precious, delicate and fragile life.

The return of a fish with so delicate a life cycle is an important testament to the river's new vigor.