delve for
Example Sentences
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“The Debrief” wrapped up its run in January when Sherman departed BoF, but the back catalog is well worth the delve for anyone seeking a better understanding of modern fashion.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2023
“The younger generation doesn’t delve for credentials,” she says.
From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2015
If there is nothing better than to delve for clothes and wooden palaces, it were as well that there should be more moulting.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey
The sophist's rope of cobweb he shall twine; Mope o'er the schoolman's peevish page; or mourn, And delve for life in Mammon's dirty mine; Sneak with the scoundrel fox, or grunt with glutton swine.
From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George
“It is best not to dig and delve for a meaning, Miss Tessa; society sanctions many phrases that you would not speak in sincerity.”
From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Drinkwater, Jennie M.
