How to Use delicacy in a Sentence

delicacy

noun

• The curtains were made from fine lace of great delicacy.
• Because of the delicacy of the situation, we needed to speak privately.
• The restaurant serves delicious sausages and other regional delicacies.
• The spoils of the fishermen’s—and horses’—work are a local delicacy on hand in restaurants in the surrounding area.
  — Liza Weisstuch, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
• Food There's one delicacy in particular that has many rules.
  — Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 9 Dec. 2024
• Some see gefilte fish as a delicacy, others as something too disgusting to contemplate.
  — Rachel Ringler, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Apr. 2021
• Fresh fava beans — a spring delicacy — have returned to local restaurant menus in sublime specials.
  — Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2021
• Previous TLs had a delicacy about them, but this third-generation car was a linebacker.
  — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 12 May 2021
• One of its crucial ingredients is a peculiarly Greek delicacy -- cured fish roe.
  — John Malathronas, CNN, 13 Apr. 2021
• The only problem is keeping the grapes out of hungry bird’s beaks because the shriveled morsels are a rare delicacy, so winemakers cover the vines with nets until harvest time.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2024
• Miller remembers maybe one other Jewish family in town and introducing his schoolmates to a doughy delicacy known as the bagel.
  — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2021
• His delicacy makes his last years a negative space of memory, documented only by his refusal to describe what was happening.
  — Sophie Pinkham, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• White nectarine and citrus zest keep the palate bright, and distinctive delicacy balances significant weight and gravitas.
  — Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 3 May 2021
• Ax evinced a keen sense of the music’s drama, moving effortlessly from magical delicacy to rhapsodic passion.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2021
• The skull was cleaned and the tongue, a delicacy, cut out.
  — Matthew Brown, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2022
• The work continues to bring the boys home, and this work needs delicacy.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 17 May 2022
• The likes of red rice, crab cakes, okra and more delicacies all make up the fare fabric of their cookbook.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2024
• His delicacy with the text lifts his scenes above the surrounding bathos like a kite.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• For Koreans, the guts are part of the delicacy, soft with a gentle funk, providing a nice counterpart to the tenderly muscular, almost crunchy texture of the rest of the abalone.
  — Steph Cha, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2021
• Fans over 21 can have their sweet treats topped off with an extra shot of the boozy delicacy.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2024
• The delicacy can be ordered as a standalone snack or as part of a meal.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2024
• El Guero’s menudo is a delicacy — a miracle to the bleary-eyed crowd.
  — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2023
• There’s even caviar service for those who want to indulge, where the delicacy is brought out in a faux Fabergé egg.
  — Christina Liao, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• But that’s where all the pleasure lies: on a construction like that and the care of it and the accuracy of it and the delicacy of it and the power of it.
  — David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• Thalman boxed up the Bibles – no small task, given their delicacy and size – and shipped them.
  — Amber Hunt, The Enquirer, 14 July 2022
• Known to the world as a delicacy, caviar is unfertilized fish eggs with a salty taste.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2022
• Maine shrimp were once a winter delicacy, but the fishery has been shut down since 2013.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2021
• Caviar is far from the only delicacy on offer, of course.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 July 2023
• Sun bears’ gall bladders are used in some Chinese folk medicine, and their paws are a high-end delicacy.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
• That's the case with the roasted bone marrow, a European delicacy that's served in a very Flagstaff way.
  — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2022

Last Updated: 31 Dec 2024