Sentence examples for delicately applied from inspiring English sources

The watercolour paint, which seems so delicately applied, was in fact poured on.

One hand grasped another across a nail salon table and delicately applied strokes of purple polish.

The seeker is rewarded with a lavish and delicately applied palette: a grand finale of streaming and dappled color, from thundercloud blues to lollipop yellows.

Far lighter, but no less gratifying, was the Rigatoni alla Buttera: fresh-tasting marinara that was delicately applied — as if by paintbrush — to a platter of rigatoni, with crumbled sausage, green peas and a sprinkling of Parmesan.

I held my mouth open out of habit as I delicately applied mascara.

As she'd sit, delicately applying decals to her outlandishly colored, inch-long nails, I'd pelt her with questions.

And instead of delicately applying masks and creams, she uses her whole (petite) body to essentially force them into your epidermis — at times politely, yet firmly, slapping them into your face.

Use a whitish paint and delicately apply a dab of paint following the curvature of the nail.

The resulting paste is applied delicately to the damaged surface, so as to injure neither statue nor bacteria.

Makeup must always be applied skillfully, delicately, and subtly so that facial expression will have natural freedom.

In her later fiction, though, especially in her best-known novels, "The Groves of Academe" (1952) and her only best seller, "The Group" (1963), the scorching McCarthy had applied so delicately in her first book -- a torch adding bite to a creme brlee -- grew fiercer and less controlled.