dainty

How To Use dainty In A Sentence

• From up stream came the babble of the brook like dainty laughter.
• Her eyes missed nothing; her dainty close-set ears heard all -- the short, dry note of a chewink, the sweet, wholesome song of the cardinal, the thrilling cries of native jays and woodpeckers, the heavenly outpoured melody of the Florida wren, perched on some tiptop stem, throat swelling under the long, delicate, upturned bill. The Firing Line
• A raftful floats by every day, dainty blue canopies flaring in the breeze. Poetry, Please « Tales from the Reading Room
• We don't do the dainty minuet of the newspaper editorial page.
• When she veils her dainty body of the delicatest grace: The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Emily Travis was dainty and delicate and rare, and whether in London or Klondike she gowned herself as befitted the daughter of a millionnaire mining engineer. THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN
• Dynamic football is more en vogue than dainty. Times, Sunday Times
• Held by the stalk at the bottom, they look like dainty fans with a wavy edge. Times, Sunday Times
• He painted oils of industrial buildings in a precisionist style, and he also did dainty flowers and fruits in watercolors. Portrait of An Artist
• See now, rounding the headland, a forlorn hopeless bird, trembling black wings fingering the blowy air, dainty and ghostly, careless of the scattering salt.