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How to use the word delightful in a Sentence?

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Cara: I just found a delightful account of a case against a wizard who once fancied getting drunk, marching down to the market on Stentor Street, hiking up his robes to random women and commanding them to kiss the serpent.

Terry Goodkind

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Well, you should live out here for a while. You'll see some crazy s ---, and yet, as I always say, the climate is a disaster and the weather is delightful.

Bill Maher

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2 years ago

Joel Schiffman and I have had a lot of prayerful and meaningful conversations over the holidays and we decided that we're better as friends and parents than we are as an engaged couple, so we decided we are going to start this new year on our new path as loving parents to our adorable, delightful children, and as friends.

Hoda Kotb

Found on CNN
2 years ago

She showed me her wiggly tooth, she was so excited, she was the most delightful little girl you ever met in your life.

Annette Sullivan

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2 years ago

She’s bubbly, playing, friendly, sweet. She was eating an icy pole, she spilt it every way. She told me it was very, very sticky, which I believed, and she was just delightful.

Mark McGowan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Linda was a delightful, cheerful, generous, fun and smart lady, when you were around her, you were just comfortable. She never made you feel less than anybody. She didn’t talk badly about people. She always saw the good in people. She was always reluctant to say bad things about people. And I think that’s exactly what trapped her into marrying Paul Curry. He overwhelmed her by being so loving and generous. He treated her like a princess. She only saw the good.

Merry Seabold

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If we got to go to work together and come home together, all that work time, when you come home and' Oh, honey, how was your day ?' ... We did all that in the day and in the car, and by the time we got home were able to just put it all away, which was really delightful.

Julia Roberts

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I never knew being alone could be so delightful, i’m rich because I have family and friends living all around me. My sister is on one side. My nephew is on the other. One of my dearest friends just moved one block away. We don’t have to have a man, to be happy – not that you couldn’t be with a man – but I’m just happy.

Linda Evans

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Normally, Chinese New Year we would be absolutely bustling with all our delightful visitors from across Asia, we’ve seen a really significant, absolutely complete decline.

Anthea Hammon

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Cleanliness is a mindset – a positive habit that keeps the body, mind, and environment happy, healthy, simple, neat, and delightful.

Amit Ray

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4 years ago

I always ask myself if what Im writing will satisfy a reader whos in a plane that cant land because of fog, or whos recovering from an operation in a hospital or who has to escape to a more delightful world for whatever reason, that is the test.

Steve Krantz

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The sad thing about it is she (Handler) boasts about two abortions she had at 16, i think she's jealous of my daughter. My daughter has a husband who loves her and is wonderful to her. My daughter has three delightful children. ... She goes to church and lives a life Chelsea Handler has never known.

Mike Huckabee

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Love has no power to look forward — the delicious consciousness of the present, a faint but delightful shadow of the past, form its eternity.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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7 years ago

most delightful time in the most beautiful country in the company of Tonantius Ferreolus (the elder) and Apollinaris, the most charming hosts in the world

Sidonius Apollinaris

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10 years ago

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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10 years ago

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Sydney Smith

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10 years ago

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Joseph Brodsky

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10 years ago

My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

Edith Wharton

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10 years ago

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

Mahatma Gandhi

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13 years ago

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Charles Simmons

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13 years ago

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

Francis Quarles

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13 years ago

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful.

George Bernard Shaw

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13 years ago

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

Erasmus

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13 years ago

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