fragilely
- a word derived from fragile.
Example Sentences
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That music, in turn, is received by isolated members of a hunkered-down audience, fragilely connected by a shared sound experience.
From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2020
Playing a club date one evening recently, Jazz Pianist Bill Evans slid unaccompanied into a fragilely twining song of his own composition titled Peace Piece.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has sketched countless pencil studies of tiny seed pods as fragilely faceted as snowflakes, made exquisite drybrush watercolors* of bees' honeycombs in winter.
From Time Magazine Archive
MAZZO, 18, a willowy, fragilely pretty girl from Chicago.
From Time Magazine Archive
What a flower she looked and how fragilely shaken, like the rain-beaten crocuses in the grass!
From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth
