Example sentences for: delight

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

  • Romans who delight in Bernini’s scorn for his rivals suggest that the Nile god covers his head rather than look at Borromini’s church of Sant’Agnese in Agone, and the river god of the Americas is poised to catch it in case it collapses.

  • He still doesn't know a lot about computers but, to our great delight, he's really got into some of the technical possibilities of publishing on the Web--and into some of the limitations as well.

  • Those VERBATIM readers who delight in Sic! Sic! Sic! squibs will find fulfillment in the pages of this book, which chronicles examples of unfortunate syntax and typographical errors—usually called literals in British English—gleaned from the pages of various (British) periodicals.

  • Monica Lewinsky took such obvious delight in regaling us with details of her encounters with her sexual soulmate--her wide eyes crinkling happily, her full mouth struggling vainly against a triumphant grin at the impressive number of times he called--you felt you'd wandered into Lord of the Flies, the female version . What adultless colony did this girl come from?

  • Is this reasonable caution or self-important delight in martial law?


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