We found 131 examples of how to use delay in an English sentence.
Sentences 101 to 125 of 131.
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| 101. | But Venus round them on the way / wrapt a thick mist, a mantle of dark air, / that none should see them, none should touch nor stay, / nor, urging idle questions, breed delay. | |
| 102. | There was a delay. | |
| 103. | "O light of Troy, our refuge! why and how / this long delay? Whence comest thou again, / long-looked-for Hector? How with aching brow, / worn out by toil and death, do we behold thee now! / But oh! what dire indignity hath marred / the calmness of thy features? Tell me, why / with ghastly wounds do I behold thee scarred?" | |
| 104. | A "gapers' delay" is a blocking of traffic caused by drivers who, out of curiosity, slow down to observe an accident. | |
| 105. | Might I beg you, as time may prove to be of importance, to furnish me with the facts of your case without further delay? | |
| 106. | "Far better round Pachynus' point to steer, / though long the course, and tedious the delay, / than once dread Scylla to behold, or hear / the rocks rebellow with her hell-hounds' bay." | |
| 107. | Then to Anchises, as he bids us spread / the sails, with reverence speaks Apollo's seer, / "Far-famed Anchises, honoured with the bed / of haughty Venus, Heaven's peculiar care, / Twice saved from Troy! behold Ausonia there, / steer towards her coasts, yet skirt them; far away / that region lies, which Phoebus doth prepare. / Blest in thy son's devotion, take thy way. / Why should more words of mine the rising South delay?" | |
| 108. | Sami couldn't explain the delay. | |
| 109. | I don't think that we should delay doing that any longer. | |
| 110. | "Take it, please, but where will you get it from in order to return it so soon?" "After supper I will go home, and ask my mother." "What if she won't give it to you?" "She won't delay when I show her the book." | |
| 111. | We can't delay much longer. | |
| 112. | Lucy commenced some apology for their long delay, but, conscience-struck, became confused as she proceeded; and when Ravenswood, coming to her assistance, endeavoured to render the explanation complete and satisfactory, he only involved himself in the same disorder, like one who, endeavouring to extricate his companion from a slough, entangles himself in the same tenacious swamp. | |
| 113. | Their offer pleased Hemor, and Sichem, his son: And the young man made no delay, but forthwith fulfilled what was required: for he loved the damsel exceedingly, and he was the greatest man in all his father's house. | |
| 114. | If delay had not been made, we had been here again the second time. | |
| 115. | Tom seemed irritated by the delay. | |
| 116. | He apologised to her for the delay. | |
| 117. | I bet the delay will frustrate her. | |
| 118. | I don't doubt that the delay will frustrate her. | |
| 119. | There's a possibility that the delay will frustrate Tom. | |
| 120. | I'm aware that the delay will frustrate some people. | |
| 121. | I doubt that the delay will be as long as you think it'll be. | |
| 122. | Why the delay? | |
| 123. | There will be no delay. | |
| 124. | Do it without delay. | |
| 125. | I'll have to delay your delivery. |