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Discover LudwigThe phrase "fragile looking" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that appears delicate or easily breakable. For example: - The ancient vase was fragile looking, with delicate patterns and a thin, delicate handle. - She was a petite woman with a fragile looking frame, giving her a vulnerable appearance. - The butterfly's wings were so fragile looking that I was afraid to touch them, for fear of damaging them.
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Buried in the British Library's new building at Euston is a small fragile looking manuscript.
Within two minutes, Anderlecht take the lead through a fragile looking boy who is later elected "man" of the match.
"He is a rare, exquisite being, small, very fragile looking but one does not notice his 'infirmity' as he calls it, the thing I much feared".
And the fragile looking Ms. Steinman and solid Mr. Costa, a handsomely complementary pair dressed in white brocade robes and pants, perfectly evoked that mystical sense of timelessness.
Tremlett is not, though with an increasingly fragile looking squad he already has one foot on the plane to Dhaka, provided he can prove his fitness.
Ms. Farmiga, fragile looking but with pale blue eyes that bore a hole in whatever they're focused on, brings a subtle, edge-of-sanity determination to a role that easily could have been a cartoon.
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The Wink Pen is pretty, but fragile-looking: the glass is thin and I'm intimidated because I need to look at instructions to build it.
Ms Silva, fragile-looking as it is, appeared visibly tired.
We've all seen fragile-looking, battered craft like this.
She is a fragile-looking single mum with two children.
She is very thin, slightly fragile-looking, and this day seemed somewhat on edge.
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