Example sentences for: delicatessens

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

  • Its houses are still lived in (although most are now apartments rather than single-family homes), and its streets filled with bakeries, delicatessens, and wine merchants where people drop in to buy dinner on the way home in the evenings.

  • Salem Street, just north of Hanover, is another atmospheric street lined with wonderful delicatessens redolent with the scents of fresh cheeses, sausages, and pasta, newsagents selling Corriere della Sera and La Gazzetta dello Sport, and such bakeries as Bova, selling first-rate cakes and pastries at number 134.

  • Anyone laboring under the delusion that English is not an acquisitive language should be disabused by the following caption from an article about delicatessens that appeared in the Magazine Section of The Sunday Times [London], 7 January 1989: [“Foreignisms” are so set in the original.

  • And 24-hour diners and delicatessens that cut giant chunks of meat with scary slicing machines.

  • The neighborhood lines have blurred in recent years, but the Main stays appropriately neutral, a veritable United Nations of Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Polish, Jewish, Arab, and Japanese specialty shops, grocery stores, delicatessens, and cafés.


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