Delia

[ deel-yuh ]

noun

1. a female given name, form of Cordelia.

Example Sentences

They head out for “a drive” in pure ’90s grunge — via Delia’s, we’re quite sure — and share a few carefree moments in a vacant parking lot.

From Washington Post

"When the conversation turns to dogs, you know the party is five minutes from being over," Delia writes.

From The Daily Beast

Finding writing therapeutic, Delia channeled her feelings of loss onto paper.

From The Daily Beast

In her first memoir, Delia Ephron talks bad hair days, her lack of religion, and losing her big sister Nora.

From The Daily Beast

“I practice Ephron,” Delia Ephron told me when asked about her religion.

From The Daily Beast

And so come the most surprising facet of Delia's memoir, her choice to lead with the emotionally heaviest subject—Nora's death.

From The Daily Beast

He disappeared ever such a long time ago, and poor Miss Robinson—Delia—naturally wants to find him.

From Project Gutenberg

What has happened, Miss Delia, is that I have learnt at last the secret that my heart has been striving to tell me for weeks past.

From Project Gutenberg

But, as Delia's mother, I ought to warn you that she is hardly fitted to take the place of your housekeeper.

From Project Gutenberg

But Thyrsis found to his pain that it was impossible to make these considerations of any real import to Delia.

From Project Gutenberg

Delia Gordon came nearly every day to see Corydon, and once or twice Corydon went down to the town and had lunch with her.

From Project Gutenberg