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Delft is an English word with synonyms like earthenware. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Delft | Delftware

Delft meaning

Alternative form of Delft (“style of earthenware”).

Synonyms of Delft

earthenware

Using Delft

  • The main meaning on this page is: Alternative form of Delft (“style of earthenware”).
  • Useful related words include: earthenware.
  • In the example corpus, delft often appears in combinations such as: in delft, the delft, of delft.

Context around Delft

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 8 start, 7 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

culture 1× rose 1× biotechnology 1× bucharest 1× leiden 1× dutch 1× beautiful 1×

Often after:

university 3× blue 2× pottery 1× amsterdam 1× helsinki 1× known 1× analativu 1× islet 1× used 1× unfortunately 1×

Sentence patterns with Delft

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

2628 bc delft the netherlands 1× a beautiful delft plate of 1× at tu delft this has 1× athens bucharest delft helsinki oxford 1× coast of delft islet in 1× culture delft blue is 1× delft students in 1× delft unfortunately had 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a 2mw research 1× a beautiful delft 1× a man died 1× according to wijnand 1× culture delft blue 1× delft unfortunately had 1×

Common sentence endings:

and 38 respectively 1× by johannes vermeer 1× by the outage 1× delft amsterdam rijksmuseum 1× delft blue style 1× delft the netherlands 1×

Words around Delft

Just before it in the word index:

delfs 3 delfraissy 2 delfouneso 3 delfino 4 delfina 10 delfin 12

Just after it in the word index:

delftware 2 delgaco 2 delgada 2 delgadillo 4 delgado 156 delgamuukw 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

abington 67 abled 67 adorno 67 affording 67 aflac 67 alchemist 67

Corpus analysis for Delft

  • In this selection, "delft" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, culture, rose, biotechnology, university, blue and pottery stand out and add context to how "delft" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 2628 bc delft the netherlands and a beautiful delft plate of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "delft" sits close to words such as abington, abled and adorno, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with delft

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Delft students in the sunshine. (5 words)

Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 67, 2628, BC, Delft, the Netherlands. (14 words)

View of Houses in Delft, known as The Little Street, 1658-59, by Johannes Vermeer. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

Culture Delft blue is most famous but there are other kinds of Delftware, like this plate faience in rose Delft is well known for the Delft pottery ceramic products which were styled on the imported Chinese porcelain of the 17th century. (41 words)

The operation was launched Tuesday off the coast of Delft islet in Northern Jaffna when the Sri Lankan Navy received information that an Indian with some fishermen was involved in illegal fishing in the Sri Lankan waters. (37 words)

The continent is home to some of the leading tech and engineering universities in the world, including Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College in the U.K., ETH Zurich, and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. (36 words)

Example sentences (20)

Culture Delft blue is most famous but there are other kinds of Delftware, like this plate faience in rose Delft is well known for the Delft pottery ceramic products which were styled on the imported Chinese porcelain of the 17th century.

Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 67, 2628, BC, Delft, the Netherlands.

A 2MW research reactor is located in Delft, as part of the physics department of Delft University of Technology.

Vermeer's two townscapes have also been attributed to this period: View of Delft (The Hague, Mauritshuis) and A street in Delft (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum).

According to Wijnand Veeneman, an infrastructure expert at TU Delft, this has to do with financing.

The 3,339 signatories are mostly environmental scientists, representing institutions including the universities of Athens, Bucharest, Delft, Helsinki, Oxford and Zurich.

View of Houses in Delft, known as The Little Street, 1658-59, by Johannes Vermeer.

On March 1, India and Sri Lanka signed an agreement for the development of a hybrid renewable energy system for the Delft, Analativu and Nainativu islands of the northern Jaffna peninsula.

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Police spokesperson Captain F.C. Van Wyk confirmed that the boy’s mutilated and burned body was found just after 14:00 in Renoster Street, Leiden, Delft.

The operation was launched Tuesday off the coast of Delft islet in Northern Jaffna when the Sri Lankan Navy received information that an Indian with some fishermen was involved in illegal fishing in the Sri Lankan waters.

Inside in Finders Keepers, I discovered the wall tile art of Alanna Plekkenpol who creates images in a traditional Dutch Delft Blue style.

I stayed in Delft, then Belhar, where I was beaten by my landlord until I peed on myself.

The municipality of Delft used its social media platforms to also say it was adversely affected by the outage.

The victims were a 22-year-old man from Delft and three men from The Hague, aged 24, 30 and 38 respectively.

A man died and a woman sustained serious burn wounds in a house fire in Delft on Thursday morning, the City of Cape Town’s Fire and Rescue Services says.

Delft unfortunately had a communication error that cut their run short at just around 650 feet into the just over 3/4-mile SpaceX Hyperloop test track.

The continent is home to some of the leading tech and engineering universities in the world, including Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College in the U.K., ETH Zurich, and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

A beautiful delft plate of the Royal Oak shows how quickly this episode passed into popular legend.

Delft students in the sunshine.

Due to the presence of deep-sea ports and a good network of pipelines, the Netherlands is an ideal location for such a plant, consultancy firm CE Delft said in a report last year.

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Common combinations with delft

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "delft" in a sentence?
An example: "Culture Delft blue is most famous but there are other kinds of Delftware, like this plate faience in rose Delft is well known for the Delft pottery ceramic products which were styled on the imported Chinese porcelain of the 17th century." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "delft" from authentic English texts.
What does "delft" mean?
Delft means: Alternative form of Delft (“style of earthenware”).
What are synonyms of "delft"?
Common synonyms of "delft" include: earthenware.
How many example sentences with "delft" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "delft", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.