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How to use delectation in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word delectation? Here are some examples.

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Anyway, I've put a copy of the article and the review in the post for your delectation and amusement.
I've finally got together some new links for your pleasure and delectation.
When a movie is described as provocative, it usually means its star has deigned to bare his or her naughty bits for the audience's delectation.
And for our listeners this morning, we have a delectation of delights, a feast of fantasies.
There is a thin line between Schadenfreude, which I take to be measured satisfaction in the discomfiture of opponents, and the sin of morose delectation.
Glass containers, ceramic vessels and galvanised cans brimming with an array of cacti, gerbera and orchids are available for your mum's Mother's Day delectation.
The title in itself is a little misleading, for this delectation produced for our viewing pleasure is neither about love nor does it appear to have celebrities!
You will be glad to hear we have now added to our extensive inventory a great many comedies, dramas and other plays for your delectation!
Fielding the narrator buttonholes the reader repeatedly, airs critical and ethical questions for the reader's delectation, and urbanely discusses the artifice upon which his fiction depends.
An attentive and professional service provided by courteous and efficient staff constitutes the final essential touch that turns the inflight meal into a genuine occasion of pure pleasure and delectation.
From 11 June to 11 July, the great and the good of the global game will parade their wares in South Africa for the delectation of fans across the world.
The acacias provide the ants with food, in the form of protein, fat and sugar secreted for their delectation by special organs called Beltian bodies, and also with homes, in the hollow thorns which give the plant its name.
Examples from Classical Literature
She came in pretending to beat an imaginary horse, for the delectation of Meta.
Instead the rich vigor of the brine subtends them and bears them, tanged with salt, to our deeper delectation.
He was intent upon the dish that O'Deigh and Wantage had prepared for his delectation.
After dinner she continued the recital of her adventures for the Master's delectation.
My words had been addressed to Letitia, but they were selfishly designed for my own delectation.
Such is the appetising menu which dust furnishes for our delectation.
They were reserved for the delectation of the sovereign and his court.
Produce and gifts from all over the world are there for your delectation as vendors set out their stalls for you to peruse.
To spin yarns for Charley's delectation would have been absurd.
And brought there expressly for your delectation, I suppose.
A new celebrity had risen for the delectation of the fickle populace.
The Prince smiled and helped himself to one of the very excellent cigarettes which had been provided for the delectation of his visitor.
A great mass of people stood round the roasting ox, which had been frizzling all night before a huge fire and then was cut up for the delectation of the crowd.
Meanwhile, Mr Venus, who had left the duelling frogs to fight it out in his absence by candlelight for the public delectation, put the shutters up.
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