DELICIOUS in a Sentence

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81 example sentences for DELICIOUS, such as:

1. Yes, it's delicious.
2. He goes for its full,delicious flavors.
3. This dish is delicious but rather a trouble to prepare.
4. Add salt and pepper, presto, you have a delicious meal!
5. A feeling that was unfamiliar but very delicious came over her.

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 Meanings and Examples of DELICIOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
delicious
 a.  extremely pleasing to the sense of taste; greatly pleasing or entertaining
Classic Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  She read, too, in his answering gaze the delicious confirmation of her triumph, and for the moment it seemed to her that it was for him only she cared to be beautiful.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
2  The very slowness and hesitancy of the effect increased its fascination: it was delicious to lean over and look down into the dim abysses of unconsciousness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
3  Young Rita Simons's net blouse had lost two buttons, and betrayed more of her delicious plump shoulder than was regarded as pure in Gopher Prairie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  But her milky skin was delicious, her eyes were alive, her chestnut hair shone, and there was a tender slope from her ears to the shadowy place below her jaw.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  Before the blade got fairly into them, they split of their own ripeness, with a delicious sound.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
6  Many of them were delicious in the role; one of them was the embodiment of every womanly grace and charm.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IV
7  The water must be delicious; it will not hurt you.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
8  First of all, the sight of the water stretching so far away, those motionless sails against the blue sky, made a delicious picture that I just wanted to sit and look at.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
9  Edna began to feel like one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XI
10  She wished them to know the country, with its streams, its fields, its woods, its freedom, so delicious to the young.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
11  A feeling that was unfamiliar but very delicious came over her.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
12  They were delicious February days, with all the summer's promise hovering in the air.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXII
13  All along the journey homeward their presence lingered with her like the memory of a delicious song.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXII
14  Little Sebastijonas, aged three, had been wandering about oblivious to all things, holding turned up over his mouth a bottle of liquid known as "pop," pink-colored, ice-cold, and delicious.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
15  He and some of his fellows who had donned blue were quite overwhelmed with privileges for all of one afternoon, and it had been a very delicious thing.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  Traditional Spanish food is delicious and its specialities are worth searching out.
2  There's always a wide selection of delicious meals to choose from.
3  Yes, it's delicious.
4  His hot pancakes are delicious, you buy them straight from the kitchen to eat in your hands.
5  This delicious variation on an omelette is quick and easy to prepare.
6  He goes for its full,delicious flavors.
7  In half an hour she had managed to cook up some delicious chilli.
8  The delicious smell of freshly-made coffee came from the kitchen.
9  This dish is delicious but rather a trouble to prepare.
10  Every day a different chef will be conjuring up delicious dishes in the restaurant.
11  In addition, many soaps and shampoos come in delicious scents that can be tempting for a child.
12  They can be made dairy free, still be delicious, and contain wholesome goodness.
13  A little solace came at tea-time, in the shape of a double ration of bread--a whole, instead of a half, slice--with the delicious addition of a thin scrape of butter.
14  Add salt and pepper, presto, you have a delicious meal!
15  The hunter entertained us with venison which was very delicious.