Sample sentences for DELECTABLE

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extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye

delectable = extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye

delectable = extremely pleasing

They were talking about Lord Lowborough and his delectable lady,
Anne Bronte -- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Making the hard way sweet and delectable.
Shakespeare -- King Richard II
She had the adorable habit of letting the pink tip of her tongue protrude from her full, delectable lips while she concentrated.
Homer Hickam -- October Sky

delectable = extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye

I have a dry red from the Arbor, crisp and delectable.
George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones

delectable = extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye

How delectable it was to think of this baby, her baby, their baby.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

delectable = extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye

After kola nuts had been presented and eaten, the people of the sky set before their guests the most delectable dishes Tortoise had even seen or dreamed of.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

delectable = extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye

He liked to sit and lick the carpeting with lust, as if it had been larded with the most delectable gravy he had ever tasted.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me

delectable = extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye

Better to abstain from the gardens of delectable delights than to be stuck planting them, dawn to dusk.
Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies

delectable = extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye

In a forest looking for beechnuts and truffles and delectable roots, pushing leaves aside with my wonderful strong nose, searching and sniffing along the ground, smelling, smelling, smelling ....
E. B. White -- Charlotte's Web

delectable = extremely tasty (tasting good)

OF THE DELECTABLE DISCUSSION BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO PANZA, HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote

delectable = very pleasing

What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr

delectable = extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye

Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite delectable, and that very special gingerbread.
Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca

delectable = extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye

The grass you are standing on, my dear little ones, is made of a new kind of soft, minty sugar that I've just invented! I call it swudge! Try a blade! Please do! It's delectable!
Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

delectable = extremely pleasing

She was the delectable bait.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
About Fifteen Minutes Away from home, we stopped for a private And I tasted in our last barrage of delectable a growing sense of dread.
Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
Each man got one delectable puff.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
Gladys Grierson, one of the more delectable ornaments of the senior class, had been afflicted to a greater extent with Jean Louise's complaint.
Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman
As her pulse slowed almost to normal, Sa' imagined the delectable taste of moosemeat during the long winter months ahead.
Velma Wallis -- Two Old Women

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