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.
• People move and change banks and credit cards, and some people even delete their Google accounts.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2022
• Cotton renewed advice for Americans to delete the app and even get a new phone.
  — Ian Fisher, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2022
• If there's no payment, the hacker threatens to keep the owner locked out or delete the files completely.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2022
• My survivors might feel obligated to delete their vacation pics, and that shall not be my legacy.
  — Jay Katsir, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• Like dominoes, the first account takeover had allowed the hacker to snap up the business pages and delete the administrative access of the business owners.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022
• Like the Optimizer in the Windows edition, Junk Cleaner searches for files that can be deleted to free up disk space.
  — PCMAG, 22 Oct. 2024
• Flashback: In 2021, Meta shut down its decade-old facial recognition system and deleted the face data of more than one billion users.
  — Sam Sabin, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
• Though a number of stars and high-profile figures signaled plans to leave in the wake of Musk’s tenure, the majority have simply left their accounts dormant rather than delete completely.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Nov. 2022
• The company must also notify users about how to disable location tracking, delete the data collected by the settings, and set data retention limits.
  — Cecilia Kang, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2022
• Beyoncé sent a cease-and-desist to the Trump campaign shortly after, and the video was subsequently deleted from Cheung’s profile.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 26 Oct. 2024
• Regaining access to Twitter at the time required the publication to delete the offensive tweet, but the Babylon Bee refused.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 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
• 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

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024