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How to use delicious in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective

Delicious means pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty. Example: “The irony is delicious!”

Examples of delicious by meaning

adjectivePleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.

  • Ah, but it had been delicious!1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 120

adjectivePleasing to a person's taste; pleasing to the eyes or mind.

  • The irony is delicious!
  • But the houses are so delicious and the way they're townscaped on to hilly bits is absolutely wonderful.1986, Patrick Lichfield, Courvoisier's Book of the Best, page 230

More sentences with delicious

  • The cake was delicious: half was vanilla and half was chocolate.From the entry half
  • It didn't take long to eat a packetful of snowballs — they are simply delicious.From the entry snowball
  • I’m stuffed after having eaten all that turkey, mashed potatoes and delicious stuffing.From the entry stuff
  • Let's go to Sophie's by the sea; they have the most delicious fish and chips.From the entry fish and chips
  • Pedro's is a fine establishment serving a variety of delicious food.From the entry establishment
  • The fine restaurant presented an array of savory dishes; each was delicious.From the entry savory
  • The casserole looked delicious, but Moishe wouldn't eat it because it was treyf.From the entry treyf
  • They make a delicious dinner special of hogget. It is made with rosemary and mint.From the entry hogget
  • I had falafel in pita bread last week - it was delicious!From the entry pita bread
  • The cook prided herself on making the kitchen supper as delicious as the family's dinner.From the entry kitchen supper
  • There were three hamburgers and every one (of them) was delicious.From the entry every one
  • Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoction to offer your guests.From the entry come
  • Strawberries are particularly delicious with ice cream.From the entry ice cream
  • Have you tried the vanilla fudge? It's delicious!From the entry fudge
  • The flavour of this apple pie is delicious.From the entry flavour
  • The flavor of this apple pie is delicious.From the entry flavor
  • These chocolates all look delicious. Whichever shall I choose?From the entry whichever
  • What flavour is your ice-cream? Mine’s maple—it’s delicious.From the entry maple
  • Normally I just put tomato purée on my pizza, but today I made my own tomato sauce. It was delicious.From the entry tomato purée
  • Wow, this food is straight up delicious.From the entry straight up
  • All the food on the menu looked delicious, so I tried to narrow down my choices to only healthy foods.From the entry narrow down
  • The mountain apple juice is mouthwateringly delicious.From the entry mountain apple
  • Yum! This apple pie is delicious!From the entry yum
  • I baked a delicious cherry pie.From the entry bake
  • Cheesecake is an especially delicious dessert.From the entry cheesecake
  • He made a delicious butternut soup.From the entry butternut
  • Frogmore Stew is especially delicious served outdoors, making it the perfect dish for a casual get-together.Gwen Fowler, “Just What is Frogmore Stew?”, in Discover South Carolina, South Carolina: South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and…. From the entry Frogmore stew
  • You made that brocc more delicious, and that’s precisely the point.2023, Molly Baz, “Play by the Rules”, in More Is More: Get Loose in the Kitchen, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 22, column 2. From the entry brocc
  • Studies have shown that wine cap mushrooms, for example, can boost corn's ability to produce delicious ears.2023, Liv Sisson, Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager's Field Guide, Penguin Random House New Zealand, →ISBN. From the entry companion planting
  • Other sparkling wines like cava, crémant and sparkling riesling would be delicious, too.2022 July 21, Eric Kim, “Welcome to Chicago, Hot Dog Town, U.S.A.”, in The New York Times. From the entry cava
  • Here, Rose shares her Palestinian grandmother's delicious rice and lamb recipe.2021 April 13, Shandra Woworuntu, Taste of Freedom: Recipes for Resilience, Balboa Press, →ISBN. From the entry Palestinian
  • There’s no need to make adobo first to taste a delicious humba!2021 August 6, Roselle Miranda, “Ulam Recipes: How To Transform Pork Adobo Into Humba”, in Yummy.ph, Mandaluyong: Summit Media, archived…. From the entry humba
  • The men devoured the delicious beef stew, boiled ground food and dumplings then the drinking began.2021, H. M. Hanlan, Jamaica's Plantain Tarts, & Marcus Garvey. From the entry ground food
  • It was tomato soup with rice, and it was delicious, but quite filling.2021 November 15, David Gelernter, “Starting Work in Warsaw”, in Leizar: A Struggle Across Generations, →ISBN. From the entry napoleonka
  • It wouldn’t be a true Happy Hour without some delicious drinks to complement the Border Style Mex.2020 July 21, Cami Studebaker, “On The Border Livens Up Happy Hour with Bold New Specials”, in RestaurantNews.com, archived from the…. From the entry strawberrita
  • It was a day filled with echocardiograms and delicious samples of ensaïmada.2019, Jamie Erickson, “Delight Instead of Defeat”, in Homeschool Bravely: How to Squash Doubt, Trust God, and Teach Your Child with…. From the entry ensaïmada
  • “Sarah, these are delicious.” Sarah looked at the creamy, yellow tarts.2019 October 9, Susan McCormick, The Fog Ladies. From the entry egg custard

Meaning of delicious

  1. adjective Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
  2. adjective Pleasing to a person's taste; pleasing to the eyes or mind.
  3. adjective Having tremendous sex appeal.

Full definition of delicious

Questions about delicious in a sentence

How do you use delicious in a sentence?
Delicious is used as an adjective. For example: “The irony is delicious!”
What is a short sentence with delicious?
“The irony is delicious!”
What does delicious mean?
Delicious means pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.

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