delight
noun
a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture.
were delighting
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past progressiveof delight.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Sherbet—originally a chilled Iranian drink—was introduced to Italy in the seventeenth century by way of the empire, and soon consumers in France and England were delighting in it as people do today.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
But with no way to assess which sorts of posts were delighting people and which were boring, offending, or confusing them, the engineers were essentially throwing darts.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2016
During these years everything seems to have struck his attention, as if he were delighting in the many facets of policy and power suddenly available to him.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the years before 1914, when the first plays of Somerset Maugham were delighting London with their brilliance, Knox already had a reputation for his wit and his satires against watery faith and confused thought.
From Time Magazine Archive
D—— was playing, and two of the boys were delighting the audience with a comic Irish song.
From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Brace, Charles Loring
