DELVE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for DELVE, such as:

1. She delved in her bag and pulled out a pen.
2. We delved into the newspaper files to find out the facts.
3. Mr Tate withdrew his delving hand and spread out the essay.
4. Digging and delving we break with the share of the plough the clod.
5. To delve into old books and manuscripts is part of a researcher's job.

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 Meanings and Examples of DELVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
delve
 v.  dig ground, as with spade; search deeply and laboriously
Classic Sentence:
1  And, after many, many years, a new grave was delved, near an old and sunken one, in that burial-ground beside which King's Chapel has since been built.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXIV. CONCLUSION
2  Digging and delving, ploughing and sowing they were singing, but the wind blew their words away.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
3  Digging and delving we break with the share of the plough the clod.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
4  Mr Tate withdrew his delving hand and spread out the essay.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
5  Here and there warm isles of sand gleamed above the shallow tide and about the isles and around the long bank and amid the shallow currents of the beach were lightclad figures, wading and delving.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
Example Sentence:
1  To delve into old books and manuscripts is part of a researcher's job.
2  She delved in her bag and pulled out a pen.
3  We delved into the newspaper files to find out the facts.