Example Sentences

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But Harris, a “quantitative thinker” who had delved into the numbers, was characteristically unmoved, the advisor said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2024

Anderson had delved into the world of the Old Masters, recreating the vulnerability of the masterpiece oil paintings in a contemporary way — with sensitivity, flair, and restrained visual drama.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2023

Brown had delved into how prosecutors led by Alex Acosta, who would later become Donald Trump’s secretary of labor, went behind the backs of Epstein’s victims to give the pedophile financier a scandalously lenient deal.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2021

I tell Kolbert I liked the book but wish it had delved into other options – politics, economics, culture, education, nature-based solutions.

From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2021

They had delved in the chalk for the flints they needed for their weapons, and their mine had fallen in at the mouth, and they could not escape.

From A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)