How to Use delight in in a Sentence

delight in

phrasal verb

• The plot, like the prince, delights in proving Niamh wrong.
  — Olivia Waite, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• Musk delights in telling the story, lingering on the risk to his life.
  — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Four-year-olds who love to color will delight in this spin on the classic craft.
  — Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2024
• The post has since accrued over 300 likes and comments delighting in the news.
  — Miranda Jeyaretnam, The Indianapolis Star, 20 June 2023
• The clan delights in mashing up the customs of both cultures.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• Just the good many who seem to delight in complaining and grousing.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
• For his part, Mr. Turner seemed to delight in anything that grew or moved.
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2024
• Kids will delight in all of the creative details, like a reversible awning, a working bell, and a write-on menu.
  — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 13 Dec. 2023
• Guests delight in this spa that brims with a vast array of treatment options, around 165 of them.
  — Jeanine Barone, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
• What was very real, though, was Garfield's delight in having been paired with Hawn.
  — Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2025
• The bad guys in this drama are pretty bad and his delight in catching them seems to surprise him.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
• The dialogue, likewise, delights in the ribald and wry.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
• Dance lovers of all ages will delight in the treasured fairy tale of a jealous Queen and her kind-hearted stepdaughter.
  — The Enquirer, 7 Mar. 2024
• Their neighbor raised cattle, and O’Leary delighted in the enormous livestock who scoped him out through the fence.
  — Ethan Wolin, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2025
• Hannah seemed to delight in being mean to Nick instead of dumping him.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 31 Oct. 2024
• From late April through early June, pollinators delight in the creamy white flowers that spring from the saguaro’s trunk and arms.
  — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 25 July 2025
• Some seemed to take a perverse delight in imagining the KFC team’s reaction to their bids.
  — H. Claire Brown, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• At Oak Shade Farm, visitors are welcome to stop in on open farm days, whether to delight in the lavender harvest or to learn the art of weaving.
  — Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2024
• If anything, the filmmaker delighted in that kind of irony.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
• And Mann delights in the glory of these machines, especially when they’re sent flying through the air.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2023
• Harris delights in playing the role of the merry jester onstage, a smart way to contrast a repertoire filled with sorrow.
  — Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2023
• Away from the court and diplomatic meetings, Victoria delighted in the life of Nice.
  — Jonathan Miles, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2023
• Houthi media outlets have also delighted in the praise the group has received from its partners in Tehran.
  — Alexandra Stark, Foreign Affairs, 2 Aug. 2024
• At Coach, maximalists (and hoarder-types) would find delight in the huge coin purse clutches slung under the arm.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 24 July 2025
• This is a straw man argument of the sort Williams delights in, in his Sun platform on the editorial pages.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
• The audience only sees the refined few minutes of joy and delight in videos, but not the weeks, months, or even years the content sometimes takes to produce.
  — Jon Youshaei, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
• Jane Austen delighted in the letters of Hester Thrale Piozzi.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• Imagine instead your mother’s delight in you as a baby, in all your sweet-smelling, roly-poly nudeness.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 June 2025
• That comment came back to haunt her, though, because after a long, lusty round of afternoon delight in the bedroom, Sophie uses Margo’s bathroom.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 23 July 2025
• Tom Lehrer delighted in following a Web site that predicted the exact day of his death and kept changing it according to an algorithm.
  — Corby Kummer, Air Mail, 2 Aug. 2025