How to Use delete in a Sentence

delete

verb

• Delete this name from the list.
• When the movie was shown on TV all the swearwords had been deleted.
• This is a scam, delete him and never talk to him again.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2022
• When the team deleted the genes that encode key parts of the tailocin, the killing went away.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 June 2024
• Rap sites like No Jumper and Say Cheese get to delete the tweet and move on to the next hip-hop drama.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2022
• How to remove apps from your iPhone Want to delete an app from your iPhone?
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
• To delete a video, click the three dots next to it, then choose Remove from downloads.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 3 Aug. 2023
• The tweet has since been deleted, but it is archived online.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• How to delete your Twitter account in a few easy steps.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2024
• But what if someone wants to delete all of their screenshots in one go?
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2024
• As part of the decision, Sleiman was to delete the nine videos cited.
  — Brooke Schultz, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2024
• By the following week, the song was deleted from Might Delete.
  — Shaheem Reid, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2024
• Singer Doja Cat seemed to mock the line in a TikTok that has since been deleted.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• On Androids, use the Google Photos app to select the photos to delete.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• Remove the crowd, delete the scenery, erase the server with the biggest smile this side of Julia Roberts.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• Can someone just tell you whether to delete TikTok or not?
  — Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 1 May 2024
• My favorite scene to film is not on the show because it got deleted.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 3 July 2024
• The post was up for about 40 minutes before it was deleted.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2023
• He’s been booed at races and trolled on social media, leading him to delete the apps from his phone.
  — Michelle R. Martinelli, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
• Her tweet has since been deleted, as have the other posts on her account.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2024
• Google’s change in policy is a wake-up call to delete those and to be more guarded about what gets on there in the first place.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
• Photos of the costumes Hampshire and her friend wore have been deleted.
  — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2023
• Coming up with a plan together doesn’t delete the romance of it all.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2022
• Once deleted, the accounts and any items in them can’t be recovered.
  — Dalvin Brown, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023
• The post was deleted right after the exit was confirmed.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 14 Oct. 2024
• The live feed was deleted, but plenty of folks recorded, shared, and commented on the video.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Sep. 2024
• The agency said consumers who receive this text should not click on the link, and instead report the text as junk or spam and delete the text.
  — Adrienne Roberts, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2022
• The email says uploads to this service stopped on June 26 and that all photos in it will be deleted on July 26.
  — Justin Pot, Popular Science, 6 July 2023
• The statement was posted by his office on X but has since been deleted.
  — Atika Shubert, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024
• Is deactivating a Twitter account the same as deleting it?
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 3 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024