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.
  • Once videos are deleted, they're deleted from their cloud.
    Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2024
  • The original post behind this still growing trend has since been deleted.
    Mia Taylor, Parents, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Microsoft has confirmed plans to delete passwords for a billion users.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • We were definitely told not to a thousand times, and then we were told to delete them because we weren’t supposed to have them.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 30 May 2022
  • As on Android, the bulk of the app data is deleted to free up space, with key bits of information kept on your phone.
    David Nield, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Restoring default settings won’t delete content on console storage such as games, apps, screenshots, video clips, and saved data.
    Toby Grey, BGR, 28 June 2022
  • Privacy advocates have warned people to delete period-tracking apps from their phones.
    Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 1 July 2022
  • Carefully review your resume for accuracy, and delete anything that is untrue and could later blow up.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 12 June 2022
  • The county can delete user comments deemed vulgar, obscene, harassing or threatening, records said.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 16 June 2022
  • Once the estimation is completed, Yoti and Instagram delete the selfie video and the still image taken from it.
    Rachel Metz, CNN, 27 June 2022
  • That means your messages are automatically deleted, even from the recipient's phone.
    PCMAG, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Tens of thousands are now scrambling to delete them over privacy concerns in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
    Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 10 July 2022
  • 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

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