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Delicates is an English word. Below you'll find 2 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Delicates in a sentence

Related words

Delicates | Delicate | Delicately | Delicatessen | Delicatessens

Delicates meaning

Garments or cloth items that are delicate and need gentle handling when being laundered, especially underwear or lingerie

Using Delicates

  • The main meaning on this page is: Garments or cloth items that are delicate and need gentle handling when being laundered, especially underwear or lingerie

Context around Delicates

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 19.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often after:

drawer 1× cycle 1×

Sentence patterns with Delicates

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

essentials your delicates drawer needs 1× use the delicates cycle on 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

hand washing is 1×

Common sentence endings:

delicates drawer needs 1× to hand wash 1×

Words around Delicates

Just before it in the word index:

delicately 107 delicate 865 delicata 6 delicacy 154 delicacies 95 delica 2

Just after it in the word index:

delicatessen 26 delicatessens 7 delicensed 2 delicias 4 deliciosa 2 delicious 1.515

Similar in corpus frequency:

aabc 4 aacr 4 aacsb 4 aadar 4 aadk 4 aadujeevitham 4

Corpus analysis for Delicates

  • In this selection, "delicates" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, drawer and cycle stand out and add context to how "delicates" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include essentials your delicates drawer needs and use the delicates cycle on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "delicates" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with delicates

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

These are the smooth-it-all-down essentials your delicates drawer needs. (12 words)

Hand washing is seen as the gentler way to go, but you can use the delicates cycle on your machine if you choose not to hand wash. (27 words)

Longer example sentences

Hand washing is seen as the gentler way to go, but you can use the delicates cycle on your machine if you choose not to hand wash. (27 words)

These are the smooth-it-all-down essentials your delicates drawer needs. (12 words)

Example sentences (2)

These are the smooth-it-all-down essentials your delicates drawer needs.

Hand washing is seen as the gentler way to go, but you can use the delicates cycle on your machine if you choose not to hand wash.

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "delicates" in a sentence?
An example: "These are the smooth-it-all-down essentials your delicates drawer needs." This page contains 2 example sentences with the word "delicates" from authentic English texts.
What does "delicates" mean?
Delicates means: Garments or cloth items that are delicate and need gentle handling when being laundered, especially underwear or lingerie
How many example sentences with "delicates" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 2 example sentences with "delicates", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.