Examples of 'took delight' in a sentence

Meaning of "took delight"

took delight ~ This phrase describes the feeling of extreme pleasure, happiness, or satisfaction that someone experiences from a particular thing, event, or activity

How to use "took delight" in a sentence

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Together we took delight in exploring many a night.
And good things in which they took delight.
Our typical peers took delight in torturing us.
He took delight in playing badminton with her.
He wanted to do it and took delight in it.
He took delight in talking with friends.
He was well skilled in worldly matters and took delight in them.
He took delight in teasing the kitten.
Fact remains that primitive man took delight in tearing his adversary apart.
You took delight in hiding your profound wisdom.
I remember the faces of little boys and girls that took delight in organized play.
My heart took delight in all my work.
It was all in good fun and the kind of thing Borges took delight in.
The artist took delight in abstraction.
The people of Judah are the cultivated place in which he took delight.

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She took delight in being a wife and mother.
The large crowd that had gathered around Jesus took delight in hearing his words.
He took delight in hospitality and in acts of kindness and charity.
And pleasant things wherein they took delight!
We took delight in your friendship.
Rather than being content with that, he took delight in pestering me.
Both took delight in developing the tale of the mice.
And the life of ease in which they took delight!
He took delight in hurting people.
Rather than contenting himself with that, he took delight in pestering me.
He took delight in his two daughters and three grandchildren.
As the years slipped by … we took delight in the new member of our family.
I took delight in sitting in it.
Can you now begin to see why God took delight in Africa?
He took delight in his instructions.
She was a person who took delight in hurting you . ”.
Michael took delight in the fact that I was so shy around him.
She was a person who took delight in hurting you, " she says.
He took delight in apprehending and imprisoning as many of Christ 's followers as possible.
My father's sons he took delight in making me king over all Israel.
He took delight in reading Montaigne, translated by Florio.
In that sense Jehovah “ took delight in crushing, ” or the crushing of, the Messiah.
Allied pilots took delight in dropping napalm on these garden plots whenever possible.
And Jesus too took delight in what he could and did accomplish.
The younger ones took delight in identifying the colours of the Northern lights.
Somebody obviously took delight in posing an unnerving puzzle which Valentin could not solve.
Thus, they took delight in the ones they like.
Most children took delight in torturing animals whereas, he was merciful.

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