This capacity to expand prevents the food bolus from rupturing the delicate epithelial layer while assisting the passage of food through the gut.

Although his many dresses in delicate layers of black chiffon and tulle were beautiful, it was largely a surface beauty.

Minogue appears on pedestal, which arises from a delicate layer of water.

The glistening metallic lustre of the whole exterior is largely though not entirely due to the erosion of the delicate external layer of the shell.

We see not only the delicate grey layers of the paintings but also the precise remaining white parts where the artist makes his greatest effort.

These white blood cells form a network in the epidermis, the skin's delicate outer layer, which is about the thickness of a sheet of plastic wrap.

He licked softly and gently in long, loving swipes, and was amazed to find how quickly she opened to him, layer upon delicate layer.

The retina is delicate, "about as strong as one layer of wet Kleenex," he said.

Her mixed media works are made with delicate layers of acrylic paint and color pencil on the surfaces of old books or other bric-a-brac objects.

Molnar said and then described watching a relative form the delicate layers of pastry for strudel.