Explore Delight through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like pleasure or please. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Delight in a sentence
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Delight meaning
- Joy; pleasure.
- Something that gives great joy or pleasure.
Synonyms of Delight
Using Delight
- The main meaning on this page is: Joy; pleasure. | Something that gives great joy or pleasure.
- Useful related words include: pleasure, please, transport, enrapture.
- In the example corpus, delight often appears in combinations such as: the delight, delight of, delight to.
Context around Delight
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Delight
- In this selection, "delight" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, unconditional, masala, tomato and multiple stand out and add context to how "delight" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include air in delight as he and also a delight to watch. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "delight" sits close to words such as bounce, freezing and holland, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with delight
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Ahead of Rotherham, manager Heckingbottom expressed his delight that Berge stayed put. (12 words)
And the delight that comes out of that unexpectedness, that really lights my fire. (14 words)
After Marco shows his delight in their safety, the children report another person's arrival. (15 words)
A.K. Benninghofen is also a delight to watch as Lucy’s new friend and superfan, Margaret, who is more supportive and excited than almost any sane person would be about a person she just met being a film-writing time traveler. (42 words)
He’ll soon be back from the groomers clean, neat, fresh-smelling, and his delight to see us will match our delight to see him, and both delights will mirror God’s unwavering, and truly unconditional delight in human beings. (40 words)
As much as ever, it was a delight to walk up and down the familiar avenues, wend my way through the crowds, grab a dirt-cheap slice of first-rate pizza, scan the bookshelves at the Strand. (37 words)
A huge outpouring of emotion as he spins through 180 degrees to punch the air and scream his delight! (19 words)
Example sentences (20)
He’ll soon be back from the groomers clean, neat, fresh-smelling, and his delight to see us will match our delight to see him, and both delights will mirror God’s unwavering, and truly unconditional delight in human beings.
The new offering is available in two flavours, Masala Delight and Tomato Delight, and is part of Marico’s strategy to expand its millet-based portfolio under the Saffola brand.
Following on from Lee Westcott’s Typing Room, this collaboration between chefs Paulo Airaudo and Rafael Cagali, who met working at The Fat Duck, goes from strength to strength and delight to delight.
A cash queue sparks a sexual first in May, look-don’t-touch opens eyes in July and an after-hours work session in November schedules delight in your diary.
A child’s delight, multiple brightly colored carnival rides being set up in anticipation of a large crowd for Agrifest 2023.
A family in a small town in New York holds a world record for having the most lights on a residential property to the dismay of some neighbors and the delight of others.
After Marco shows his delight in their safety, the children report another person's arrival.
Ahead of Rotherham, manager Heckingbottom expressed his delight that Berge stayed put.
A huge outpouring of emotion as he spins through 180 degrees to punch the air and scream his delight!
A.K. Benninghofen is also a delight to watch as Lucy’s new friend and superfan, Margaret, who is more supportive and excited than almost any sane person would be about a person she just met being a film-writing time traveler.
All of this takes place against an incredibly fascinating backdrop of outstanding world-building that players will delight in exploring.
Although last week's Qatar victor Fabio Di Giannantonio challenged him Bagnaia held his nerve and eased over the line, punching the air in delight as he recorded his seventh win of the campaign.
And hundreds of people commented on social media expressing their delight that the pub - which dates back to 1699 - has reopened.
And the charity's secretary, Eddie Gibb, has spoke of his delight at securing the first part of funding required for the development.
And the delight that comes out of that unexpectedness, that really lights my fire.
And will delight the youngest members of the audience when a special episode from the classic educational series is screened.
And yet because it is a Lee Smith novel, it is bursting with life and laughter and love, an absolute delight.
A scene of happy couples dancing around a maypole with real life babies and infants on stage – much to our delight – is a triumphant and tender celebration of fertility.
As for me, I was almost giddy with delight that the dance came to fruition — and that people participated.
As much as ever, it was a delight to walk up and down the familiar avenues, wend my way through the crowds, grab a dirt-cheap slice of first-rate pizza, scan the bookshelves at the Strand.
Common combinations with delight
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the delight 24×
- delight of 23×
- delight to 18×
- delight in 18×
- his delight 15×
- to delight 14×
- delight and 12×
- delight at 12×
- and delight 11×
- delight that 11×