Example sentences for: delaney

How can you use “delaney” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Under New York's not-for-profit corporation law, a non-profit can be structured along the lines of a business corporation by creating a class of members, analogous to a business' shareholders, who run the corporation through their power to select the corporation's board of directors, explained Sean Delaney, one of the lawyers who worked on the restructuring for LSNY.

  • In his delightful article, “Onomatoplazia” [XV, 1], Chester Delaney writes, “ analysand ...

  • And, to return to Mr. Delaney, swimmingly is associated with aquatic sports: “with a smooth gliding movement” says OED . No confusion there, I would suggest.

  • Witness Chester Delaney [XV, 1] who attributes “lowing herd” to Oliver Goldsmith instead of to Thomas Gray.

  • Mr. Delaney is a victim of the confusion so often experienced by Latin students between the gerund, which is a neuter noun, active in meaning, and the gerundive, which is an adjective of similar form, but passive in meaning.


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