Sentence examples for were finicky about from inspiring English sources

The original readers were finicky about reading card swipes — and didn't work with the iPhone 4's external metal antenna band.

And an agency supervisor wrote that because other jails were "finicky" about accepting detainees with known medical problems like Mr. Romero's, such people would continue to be placed at the Bergen jail as "a last resort".

Both were finicky about loading.

Some countries' courts are finicky about this.

Ballplayers are finicky about their bats.

Mr. Perle was finicky about his own music.

But, as Mr Midler discovers, they are finicky about what is found.

Many boards are finicky about the most common of household pets.

RULES OF THE GAME Officials are finicky about turns, which makes transitions between strokes tricky.

All are relatively trouble free if you accept their one foible: They are finicky about soil.

Which, okay if you want to be finicky about it, derives originally the Velvets.