DELIGHTED in a Sentence
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260 example sentences for DELIGHTED, such as:
1. He grins, delighted at the memory.
2. I'd be absolutely delighted to come.
3. You will be delighted with them I am sure.
4. He's really delighted with his new CD player.
5. I am delighted to make your acquaintance, Mrs.
2. I'd be absolutely delighted to come.
3. You will be delighted with them I am sure.
4. He's really delighted with his new CD player.
5. I am delighted to make your acquaintance, Mrs.
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Meanings and Examples of DELIGHTED
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delighted
a. filled with wonder and delight
a. greatly pleased
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 While my companion contemplated with a serious and satisfied spirit the magnificent appearances of things, I delighted in investigating their causes.
2 I was delighted when I first discovered that a pleasant sound, which often saluted my ears, proceeded from the throats of the little winged animals who had often intercepted the light from my eyes.
3 The Turk, amazed and delighted, endeavoured to kindle the zeal of his deliverer by promises of reward and wealth.
4 The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps.
5 "I'm delighted to see you," said Gatsby standing on his porch.
6 But Sir John's satisfaction in society was much more real; he delighted in collecting about him more young people than his house would hold, and the noisier they were the better was he pleased.
7 They both seemed delighted with their drive; but said only in general terms that they had kept in the lanes, while the others went on the downs.
8 You will be delighted with them I am sure.
9 But Sir John did not sport long with the curiosity which he delighted to raise, for he had at least as much pleasure in telling the name, as Miss Steele had in hearing it.
10 I am delighted with the plan," she cried, "it is exactly what I could wish.
11 Sir John was delighted; for to a man, whose prevailing anxiety was the dread of being alone, the acquisition of two, to the number of inhabitants in London, was something.
12 I said I should be delighted to accept his hospitality.
13 I found Herbert dining on cold meat, and delighted to welcome me back.
14 Herbert was highly delighted when we shook hands on this arrangement, and said he could now take courage to tell me that he believed he must go away at the end of the week.
15 Yes,' said I, delighted; 'he knows everything.
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1 I'd be absolutely delighted to come.
2 My wife and I are very delighted to hear the news of your marriage.
3 We are extremely delighted to hear of your scholarship to Beijing University.
4 He grins, delighted at the memory.
5 I am delighted to make your acquaintance, Mrs.
6 Mrs Cartwright said she would be only too delighted to present the prizes.
7 He's really delighted with his new CD player.
8 They're delighted with the replies they've received from the public thus far.
9 The child was delighted with the bauble she had won in the grab bag.
10 Feminists should be delighted by their enlightened commitment to sexual equality, their assumption that what's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose, too.
11 After his earlier rudeness, we were delighted to see him get his comeuppance.
12 We enjoyed the soprano's solo in Act I so much that we were delighted by its reprise in the finale.
13 Be always as merry as ever you can, for no-one delights in a sorrowful man.
14 He took an almost gleeful delight in showing how wrong they can be.
15 Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.