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Example sentences for: delving

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When not practicing piano, he was delving into mystical treatises at the black-run Masonic Lodge.
It is not a word I use, but I recently heard a Canadian broadcaster use it, and that has set me to delving and grubbing in dictionaries and other reference books.
Coverage of the event by the People's Daily, the Chinese Communist Party's voice, stresses "bilateral" cooperation without delving into Tiananmen's human rights issues: "To accelerate their move toward the goal of establishing a constructive strategic partnership between the two countries, they [Clinton and Jiang] decided that they would refrain from targeting their strategic nuclear weapons against each other."
Before delving into the coming week's programming, I have to ask: Why do they keep letting Bob Woodward appear on Larry King Live ? I understand he's a big name in journalism--Watergate, Washington Post , yadda, yadda, yadda--but the man should not be allowed on television.
First names call for a frequent delving into areas of nonacademic, popular culture and recent social history, as well as a certain amount of linguistic judgment.