delight in

Example Sentences

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And he discovered he had more delight in taking the pictures than in making the pencil-and-paper drawings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

But we’ll make an exception for the shoe story, a genuine delight in an otherwise gloomy news world.

From Slate • Mar. 14, 2026

The empathic distance that reality TV affords still allows us to not only delight in the Traitors’ impressive murder run but perhaps fantasize as to how well we’d perform in their place.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2026

Austen began writing as a child, and her “juvenilia,” reports Romney, “show a delight in parody,” a characteristic that would inform her later work.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025

In his full suit of bronze armor he leaped upon his back and put him through his paces, the horse seeming to delight in the sport as much as he himself.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton