Example Sentences

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Alden’s original inspiration, he says in the program notes, was the famous gold-laced bathroom in a certain Manhattan tower and its indelicately boastful occupant.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2020

Because 100 percent is all the percent available, Sullivan shared those thoughts with the officiating crew, perhaps a bit indelicately.

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2018

Photograph by Mark Peckmezian for Bloomberg BusinessweekThe view of Central Park that Barnett indelicately calls “the money shot”

From BusinessWeek • Oct. 2, 2014

After all, as Provine noted so indelicately, you can’t tickle yourself.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2012

Pita took it and blew her nose into it indelicately.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall