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How to use del in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun

Del means the symbol ∇ used to denote the gradient operator. Example: “Probably every old city in Italy has a Via del Corso.”

More sentences with del

  • Probably every old city in Italy has a Via del Corso.2017, Rick Bailey, “What’s New”, in American English, Italian Chocolate: Small Subjects of Great Importance, Lincoln, Neb.: University of…. From the entry google-translate
  • Last December, Yahoo announced plans to “sunset” more well-known services, including the pioneering social bookmarking service del.icio.us.2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, “Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul”, in NewScientist. From the entry sunset
  • Treinta balazos en la uña del dedo chiquito del pie izquierdo.2011 [2010], Juan Pablo Villalobos, translated by Rosalind Harvey, chapter 1, in Down the Rabbit Hole, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire: And…. From the entry little toenail
  • Héctor del Curto plays the bandoneón, an accordionlike instrument heard in the tangos of his native Argentina.2009 February 6, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry accordionlike
  • The Costa del Crime setting is presumably a conscious echo of Stephen Frears's The Hit.2001, New Statesman. From the entry Costa del Crime
  • In the spring, the museum launched its new Internet magazine, ¡del Corazón! (“From the Heart”).1998, Elizabeth Broun, “National Museum of American Art”, in Smithsonian Year: Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year…. From the entry webzine
  • Variety is reporting that del Toro will direct the flick with Watson cast as its titular Beauty. . . .2012 February 14, “Guillermo del Toro to direct Emma Watson in “Beauty and the Beast””, in IFC, retrieved 28 Sep 2012. From the entry tentpole movie
  • Del, you made my day! he wrote.2011, Catherine R. Daly, chapter 3, in Coming Up Roses (Petal Pushers), Scholastic Inc., →ISBN, page 48. From the entry dorktastic
  • Fray Bentos (named after a Jesuit priest) rose and fell with the fortunes of the meat company, Frigorífico Anglo del Uruguay.2003 September 21, Tom Hall, “Sunset in a one-pie town”, in The Observer, →ISSN. From the entry Fray Bentos
  • Ennis del Mar wakes before five, wind rocking the trailer, hissing in around the aluminum door and window frames.1997, Annie Proulx, “Brokeback Mountain”, in Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories, London: Harper Perennial, published 2005…. From the entry hiss
  • Moritz ski slopes to Costa del Sol beaches, winter sun-bunnies will appreciate the superior filtering capacity of Doak's Solar Cream.1978, Cosmopolitan - Volume 184, page 80. From the entry sun-bunny
  • A second Punta del Este dateliner, by Juan de Onis, quoted Secretary of State Dean Rusk giving the official U.1958, Publication - Issues 1-134, page 93. From the entry dateliner
  • Among the Thomists holding this opinion we have Capreolus, Bannez, Ledesma, Contenson, Gotti, and more recently del Prado and Father Billot.1943, Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, The One God, B. Herder Book Company, page 158. From the entry aseity
  • Del Valle has the blessing of a garage, so he doesn't have to claim “dibs” on shoveled street spots himself, he said.2011 March 23, “We asked mayoral candidates: Do you support 'dibs' on parking spots?”, in Chicago Sun-Times. From the entry spot
  • His Krugerrand adventure had resulted in a British warrant for his arrest and obliged him to go into exile on Spain's notorious Costa del Crime.1991, Andrew Jennings, Paul Lashmar, Vyv Simson, Scotland Yard's Cocaine Connection, Random House (UK). From the entry Costa del Crime
  • The approaching winter and its coadjutants, rain, snow, and cold, have dictated the necessity for closing the 'Teatro del Soldato' up at the Front.1917, “Musical Notes from Abroad”, in The Musical Times. From the entry coadjutant
  • Beneath the marble canopy, any time between daybreak and moonrise, you will find kneeling figures dreamwrapt in adoration of their beloved Virgen del Pilar.1914, John Ernest Crawford Flitch, An idler in Spain: the record of a Goya pilgrimage. From the entry dreamwrapt
  • Hewing to this principle, I walked along the lakeshore at Bosque del Apache as the stragglers of a flock of Sandhill Cranes made their morning departure.2021, Peter Cavanagh, “9. Cranes”, in 100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight, →ISBN, page 218. From the entry hewing
  • Del Ponte only takes the blame for the last incident, acknowledging that she realized too late that she had been played by the “iron lady” from Republica Srpska.2009, David P Forsythe, Encyclopedia of Human Rights - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 485. From the entry iron lady
  • To reverse this trend, Chavacano-speakers in Cavite City have been publishing articles and poems in their language through their newsletter, NOTICIA, Amigos del Biblioteca y Museo de Cavite.2004, Chan Sin-wai, editor, Translation and Bilingual Dictionaries, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 129. From the entry Chavacano
  • It follows from the work of Gödel and Cohen that if the ZF axioms are consistent, the Axiom of Choice can be neither proved nor disproved from the ZF axioms.1993, Gary L. Wise, Eric B. Hall, Counterexamples in Probability and Real Analysis, page vii. From the entry axiom of choice

Meaning of del

  1. noun The symbol ∇ used to denote the gradient operator.
  2. noun The symbol ∂, in the context of a partial differential.
  3. noun A part, portion.

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Questions about del in a sentence

How do you use del in a sentence?
Del is used as a noun. For example: “Probably every old city in Italy has a Via del Corso.”
What is a short sentence with del?
“Del, you made my day! he wrote.”
What does del mean?
Del means the symbol ∇ used to denote the gradient operator.

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