Example sentences for: delightfully

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

  • In the remake, the general staff will arbitrarily select three saps who will be tried and found delightfully not guilty.

  • The Weekly Standard 's John Podhoretz also praises the film, saying "it will strike a chord with audiences for the same reason that its predecessors did: It is earnest, well-meaning, and delightfully free of irony.

  • Perhaps the task is not to shoot the sitting duck but to sneak up on it, loop a rope around its webbed feet, hang it upside down, and hit it with a stick until it bursts apart, raining toys and candy on the kids cavorting below--something surprising yet delightfully violent.

  • It's the ex-paramour, not the husband, who hires a detective agency to dog the mysteriously wayward Sarah, and--in one of those ironies that feels delightfully postmodern--it's Maurice himself who ends up being trailed by a Cockney gumshoe, Parkis (an amusingly earnest Ian Hart), when Sarah reinitiates contact.

  • But perhaps his sexual boasting, while delightfully buffoonish, is a minor crime.


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