fragile
adjective
easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail.
fragilely
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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
MAZZO, 18, a willowy, fragilely pretty girl from Chicago.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
She had not looked so young, so fresh, so fragilely fair for many months.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
