DELIGHTED in a Sentence

Learn DELIGHTED from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
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.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DELIGHTED
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.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
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.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
3  The Turk, amazed and delighted, endeavoured to kindle the zeal of his deliverer by promises of reward and wealth.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
4  The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
5  "I'm delighted to see you," said Gatsby standing on his porch.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
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.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
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.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
8  You will be delighted with them I am sure.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
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.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
10  I am delighted with the plan," she cried, "it is exactly what I could wish.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
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.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
12  I said I should be delighted to accept his hospitality.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIV
13  I found Herbert dining on cold meat, and delighted to welcome me back.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXX
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.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LV
15  Yes,' said I, delighted; 'he knows everything.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
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.