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Example sentences for "delightful"

Lexicographically close words:
delighted; delightedly; delighter; delightest; delighteth; delightfull; delightfully; delightfulness; delighting; delights
  1. There is a delightful story of Shinran and of the lady who led him to realise this truth.

  2. Some years ago I had a delightful talk with one of them in the shadow of the great pagoda from which our organist did not come.

  3. A small, red-brick house, standing in a flower-garden, with a delightful view from its windows of the charming Worcestershire scenery and the Malvern Hills in the distance.

  4. Oh, how delightful these old ballads are!

  5. Yesterday Mrs. Podd suggested that a summer-house in that spot would be a delightful improvement.

  6. And I am sure all young ladies ought to be obliged to me, for the new inmate is a delightful man.

  7. She is a most delightful woman, and will make the sunshine of any home.

  8. Footnote 2: This legend is well told in "Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest," a delightful book by Katharine B.

  9. Theodore Winthrop, of the old New England family, who was destined to a lasting and pathetic fame as an author of delightful books and a victim of the first battle of the Civil War.

  10. May it lead many of its readers to delightful days of recreation and adventure.

  11. Chapter XXI The Last Climb That first visit of Aaron King and Conrad Lagrange to the old home of Sibyl Andrés was the beginning of a delightful comradeship.

  12. I see you even carry a key to this really delightful room.

  13. A delightful little retreat--that studio of yours.

  14. She shook her head with a delightful air of mystery "Not until I come again.

  15. I don't see how you can think of leaving your really delightful retreat.

  16. Let me tell you that my attachment to Cratippus is that of a son rather than a pupil: I enjoy his lectures, but I am especially charmed by his delightful manners.

  17. This has fortunately been made easy for us by the very delightful work of Professor O.

  18. I took the greatest possible pleasure in the letter of the kindest and best beloved of fathers, but your own delightful letter put the finishing touch to my joy.

  19. He is a man of strict and moral life, as well as being the most delightful company.

  20. By the first of May, however, even our Northern markets should be well supplied at reasonable rates with many delightful esculents which are, as yet, brought only from the South.

  21. This is a very delightful salad, quite repaying the trouble of cooking the dressing.

  22. This is a delightful and nutritious soup, and since you are to have cold meat for dinner, you need not grudge the care of preparing it, even on Job’s birthday.

  23. Teach your cook the art of omelette-making at breakfasts, and she will soon be capable of managing this very delightful entrée.

  24. This is a delightful accompaniment to ham.

  25. Do this on Saturday, and you will have a delightful Sunday pudding.

  26. A stranger would have supposed from her expressions about it, that there did not exist a more delightful spot on earth.

  27. It was delightful to see their pleasure when Sir Harry invited them to go on to Weymouth, and to live on board as long as the ship remained there; and he gave orders to have a screen put up for their accommodation.

  28. I felt myself completely at home in a moment, she looked so exactly as she had done when I last saw her on that delightful evening I spent at Plymouth, and I so well remembered her in the days of my boyhood.

  29. By these conveyances he transported his charges to "the delightful village of Dotheboys" about three miles away.

  30. Later on in the same identical room in the same identical tavern overlooking the Thames, the same delightful couple, with John Rokesmith, partook of another delightful dinner.

  31. But that is being meticulous, not to say pedantic, and if a visit is made to the back of the building this delightful simile can be thoroughly appreciated.

  32. Bella was more delightful than any other item in the festival.

  33. This he did and the delightful story of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Walmers, junior, the chief incidents of which all took place in the same inn, was recalled by the Boots.

  34. The story begins with a picturesque description of the inn and its frequenters, and ends with a delightful pen-picture of young Joe Willet comfortably settled there with Dolly as his wife, and a happy family growing up around them.

  35. The greatest part of it stalls, and an intelligent and delightful response in them, like a touch of a beautiful instrument.

  36. There is something very delightful in this bold expression of the mind of the great master.

  37. This was a change which sacrificed a great principle of truth; it sacrificed the expression of the qualities of the material; and, however delightful its results in their first developments, it was ultimately ruinous.

  38. Very often the thing is more delightful than the stone-work itself, and all because it is broad, dark, and simple.

  39. It was a good example, and Ned followed suit, the cool, fresh water feeling delightful to his heated brow.

  40. The carved tie-beams of the porch with their masks and tracery and the great stone stoup which appears in one corner have an unrestored appearance which is quite delightful in these days of over-restoration.

  41. The Mermaid Inn is delightful both outside and inside, with its low panelled rooms, immense fire-places and dog-grates.

  42. And many of the gentlemen of England seem to have been of the same mind, if we may judge from the number of delightful old country-houses set amid pleasant scenes that time and war and fire have spared to us.

  43. Under the Act of 1851 all that was ancient and delightful to the eye would have been levelled, or hidden in fir-wood.

  44. The city is one of the most picturesque in England, situated in the most delightful country, and possessing the most perfect ecclesiastical buildings which can be conceived.

  45. Who wouldn't be a girl always if she could be sure all the other girls would stay so too, and go on in that delightful exchange of affection and fine feeling which is the very ecstacy of living?

  46. How delightful it would be to follow a programme which should include only American writers, in either prose or poetry!

  47. Some of the most delightful women we meet are those who can be girls with girls, and women with women.

  48. In a delightful way, the hermit of Walden tells us how to take walks, how to truly saunter.

  49. Do you know, girls, you do suggest the most delightful subjects for a talk!

  50. Lead up, hand in hand, in the same delightful chorus, all the graces which adorn the Christian character.

  51. It is not such a demonstration of vanity as this that will force her away from her dear and delightful occupation.

  52. How delightful the thought, that in God there is such an immensity of joy, beyond the reach of vicissitude!

  53. There is something delightful in this filial confidence which these simple-hearted men reposed in their almighty Redeemer.

  54. And in the intervals of this most delightful pastime he was trying to make up his mind on a peculiarly knotty point.

  55. And so delightful was the train of thought thus conjured up, that for a while Peterson and Lakington were forgotten.

  56. How delightful it was for me to find one like thee so eager to understand the life of the Essenes: so eager to join us.

  57. The present reception was considered an especially delightful one.

  58. But no, of course not; doublet and hose, and those delightful lace ruffles which are such a loss to society.

  59. It certainly is a delightful and refreshing novel.

  60. To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

  61. It is so delightful that you should live at the cottage!

  62. Affecting that air of playfulness, therefore, which is delightful in a woman one loves, she opened the letter directly, and read its contents.

  63. Only look, sister, how delightful every thing is!

  64. November 27th: The freshness and beauty of the trees, the clearness of the water and the birds, made it all so delightful that he wished never to leave them.

  65. When the first emotion of astonishment has subsided, how delightful is it to observe each several part which makes up this sublime whole!

  66. Reinmar says: When winter is over I saw the heath with the red flowers, delightful there.

  67. Not far off was a delightful spot where limes and alders made shade on hot summer days for the shepherds and shepherdesses who dwelt around.

  68. In the 6th Canto the Hippogriff carries Roger into a country: Nor could he, had he searched the whole world through, Than this a more delightful country see.

  69. The scattered passages about Nature in the Confessions have a youthful freshness: 'The appearance of Aurora seemed so delightful one morning, that, putting on my clothes, I hastened into the country to see the rising of the sun.

  70. But now heaven is a delightful chamber of pleasure, in which are all the powers, as in all Nature the sky is the heart of the waters.

  71. Here are many large rivers, besides a vast number of delightful springs.

  72. No more delightful place, possessing all this at once, could have been found, etc.

  73. As he once said: It is natural to me to revere the great and beautiful willingly and with pleasure; and to develop this predisposition day by day and hour by hour by means of such glorious objects, is the most delightful feeling.

  74. His Cradle Song to be sung by Moonlight is delightful in its naive humour (the moon was his special favourite): Sleep then, little one.

  75. In his delightful Life of Oliver Goldsmith, Mr Foster takes care to touch our hearts by introducing his hero's excuse for not entering the priesthood.

  76. So delightful is free expression to the human mind, that it proves agreeable even to those whose ascendency may seem to be endangered by its prevalence.

  77. One day in the following week, Will returned to Isderi; and it was with a delightful feeling of prospective proprietorship that he slipped into the high dog-cart which his uncle sent for him.

  78. There was a delightful fragrant odor of fresh bread in the town, and this made the little girl more hungry than ever.

  79. It is the Capital City of the Land of Oz, which is justly considered the most attractive and delightful fairyland in all the world.

  80. A kindred principle is, to do in person the more difficult and unpleasant work, and to commit the more easy and delightful to proxy.

  81. No delightful wandering wherever the wind takes you, without the worry of planning beforehand where you are to go.

  82. The contemplation of the one is as delightful and real as of the other.

  83. It was a delightful day, and the sun glistened on the quiet sheet of the mill pond, making liquid diamonds.

  84. It was a delightful summer evening when Dorothy, dressed in her sea-foam mulle gown, with its dainty silver white trimmings stepped out on the porch, and had the good fortune to find Nat there alone.

  85. Not because I want to be, nor that I am not having a most delightful time, but I simply have the 'glumps.

  86. This is a most delightful treatise on the methods then in use.

  87. The meadow spangled with buttercups and daisies is a delightful example.

  88. The letter is filled with a most delightful miniature.


  89. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "delightful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acceptable; adorable; agreeable; ambrosial; amusing; appealing; attractive; balmy; beautiful; beguiling; bewitching; captivating; charming; dainty; delectable; delicate; delicious; delightful; enchanting; engaging; entertaining; enthralling; entrancing; exhilarating; exquisite; fascinating; fetching; fragrant; fun; glorious; golden; good; grateful; gusty; heavenly; humorous; intriguing; inviting; irresistible; juicy; likable; lovely; luscious; lush; luxurious; nectarous; nice; palatable; picturesque; pleasant; pleasing; prepossessing; sapid; savory; scrumptious; sensuous; succulent; sweet; taking; tantalizing; tasty; tempting; thrilling; titillating; toothsome; voluptuous; winning; winsome; witching