Example Sentences

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Creme eggs have been delighting - or not, depending on your palate - British tastebuds for more than 50 years.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

The Northern Lights have been delighting photographers across the north east of England.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2022

Since the nineteen-seventies, Caland’s nuzzling provocations have been delighting and unsettling those lucky enough to see them.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 7, 2017

Together they are the Guardians of the Galaxy, a lesser-known but still popular outfit whose escapades have been delighting comic book aficionados for decades.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2014

I who have been delighting in the thought of pouring all my little wealth at your feet, and bidding you freight a new ship with it; but perhaps you are too proud—you will refuse it?'

From Andrew Golding A Tale of the Great Plague by Keeling, Annie E.