delve
IPA: dˈɛɫv
noun
- (now rare) A pit or den.
- A surname from Old English.
verb
- (intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.
- (transitive, intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
- (transitive, intransitive) To dig; to excavate.
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Examples of "delve" in Sentences
- I didn't mean for this post to once again delve into my mind, but it's a journal, so who cares?
- Newspaper reporters don't "delve" anymore . . . the age of Woodward and Bernstein is long dead.
- Q Mike, just getting back to tomorrow, could you kind of delve into what's so important about the climate change --
- He and Michelle can go back to their hateful church and once again delve into their bitter circle of friends that hate America.
- CS5 Essential Training titles delve deeper into these features using example projects to demonstrate techniques, improve workflow, and much more.
- "The Beatles" version exclusively explores the Fab Four's extensive archive, while the other two titles delve into the vast genre of rock 'n' roll.
- I mean, one of the reasons I took it is because I wanted to kind of delve into something a little bit more serious, a little bit more dramatic than I had been doing.
- Fan fiction has become so popular that itÂ’s only a matter of a quick search before you can once again delve into the lives of the fictional characters youÂ’ve grown to love.
- BRODY: They had to deal with that, and so they're reticent to a certain degree to kind of delve into some of the faith issues as it relates to the political environment, if you will, because they know that he can get a lot of backlash.
- As I started to kind of delve into the question rather more, it dawned on me that this period that I had arrived at the end of -- the period from 1945 to the early 1970s -- was not normal, was not the way America usually was, but was, on the contrary, a huge aberration, a massive stroke of luck.
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