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Example sentences for "delve"

Lexicographically close words:
delusion; delusional; delusions; delusive; delusory; delved; delving; delyt; delyte; delyuer
  1. Think of it, ye millions who dig and delve and bear heavy burdens that your mothers, wives, and children may in exchange have a bite to eat and a couch to sleep upon!

  2. Again you are delving into an area which is an improper one for you to delve into.

  3. I think it is improper of you to ask questions which delve into relationship of that nature.

  4. They delve freely into emotional situations, and fearlessly attempt profound psychological problems, but slide off like frightened crabs when they strike the clothesline.

  5. Like the disciple of Mary McLane who stole a horse in order to get the emotions of a police court, he may delve deeply not only into life, but into that under-stratum which is not spoken of, where respectable journals circulate.

  6. He recognized the difficulties which would engage the attention of those who might venture to delve into the mysterious possibilities of the problem.

  7. And still for fame men delve and die In Afric heat and Arctic cold; For fame on flood and field they vie, Or gather in the shining gold.

  8. I have always had a desire to delve into nature's laws through the doors of botany, zoology, mineralogy, chemistry, and all the other sciences.

  9. Besides, he was laying a broad and firm foundation for his faith in God and the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, a faith which would stand him well in need when he came to delve into a faithless and a Godless science.

  10. He would know the history of it; he would 'delve it to the root.

  11. If I dig and delve before the clue is mine, I may chance to put him on his guard, and find nothing.

  12. And now he was confronted by difficulties that appeared almost as insurmountable as before; for he plainly saw the hopelessness of attempting single-handed to delve the whole dell over.

  13. It's wonderful, by the way, how much a person can pick up of odds and ends of information when forced, by a hobby of this kind, to delve into recondite departments of knowledge which he would otherwise not have dreamt of exploring.

  14. Delve into the living world and strive to bind yourself to its movement by a chain of your own welding.

  15. It implied a continual assumption that she must be a mine of interest for any one who was privileged to delve into her memory.

  16. She could delve down into the earlier years of her ownership of the Pension, and see a regular, placid beauty in her daily life there.

  17. When did I ever give you the right to delve into my private affairs?

  18. Not in her memory could she delve for pleasant things, not yet.

  19. It is as natural for them to delve for underground animals as for a setter or spaniel to flush birds.

  20. For the family inclined to delve in the soil, a definite saving can be accomplished by tending a vegetable garden, raising small fruits and berries, and even maintaining a hen roost.

  21. Burrow as they might, "it should go hard but he would delve one yard below their mines.

  22. Don't think too much of money, John, And dig and delve and plan, And rake and scrape in every shape, To hoard up all you can.

  23. Delve in the mellow-mold, Far, far below.

  24. It is the fate of those who would explore, who would delve in the mines of the past, to bring up diamonds alone; we are solitary in our labor.

  25. A good motto for young people to adopt, who are determined to delve into philosophic theories, is to search all things, but be careful to hold on only to that which is true.

  26. The harder he sought to delve into the mystery, the more obscure it became.

  27. The reflection of himself in the pier glass quite met his deliberate approval, and he glanced inquiringly at his watch, rather eager to delve deeper into this adventure.

  28. But in winter the mountain Lapp herds his deer where the snow blanket is thinnest, so that they may most easily delve down to the moss beneath.

  29. And when I further delve into my impression, I first realize an undoubtedly physical relation between the many-one Welsh divines and the many-one Unamuno.

  30. These clever-witted, affectively stupid persons are wont to say that it is useless to seek to delve in the unknowable or to kick against the pricks.

  31. Why not delve in its mines of glittering, genuine treasures?

  32. As the picture appeared upon his mental retina, Sampei shuddered; and then the thought flashed on him with vivid clearness that the stroke which slew his brother would delve for aye an impassable chasm 'twixt himself and her he loved.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "delve" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.