5 sentences with 'delight'
Example sentences and phrases with the word delight and other words derived from it.
• « To his delight, World War I broke out while he was already in Germany; Hitler eagerly volunteered for the German army and served on the western front, surviving both a poison gas attack and shrapnel from an exploding shell. »
• « Jane had found some intellectual satisfaction in her work as a teacher and, to Stephen Hawking's great delight, Cambridge University appointed him a Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a chair once held by Isaac Newton. »
• « The youngest shouted, "Duckling, duckling! - one of her first words - as she stretched out her little arms in the direction of the birds. My wife and I watched the tender scene with delight. »
• « No. It is but by perfecting all those feminine graces, all those fascinating attributes, which make her the centre of attraction, and which delight and charm all who breathe the atmosphere in which she moves; and, in Mr. Burke's language, would make ten thousand swords leap from their sheaths to avenge the insult that might be offered her. By her very meekness and beauty she subdues all around her. »