Delays is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DELAYS in dictionary:

VERB:
• DELAY, to put off to a later time
• make (someone or something) late or slow
• be late or slow; loiter
• postpone or defer (an action)
NOUN:
• a period of time by which something is late or postponed
• the action of delaying or being delayed
• the time interval between the propagation of an electrical signal and its reception.
• an electronic device which introduces a delay, especially in an audio signal.

Words related to DELAYS

delay9 delayed12 delaying13

Words that contain DELAYS

gondelays14 roundelays14

How to use DELAYS in a sentence

• It has been said that in the delays in bringing forward this subject, I have been anxious to burke discussion.
• He supposed the delay was occasioned by the troubled condition of Mexican affairs, and hoped we would make all due allowances for unavoidable delays.
• Our host still smiled from his cushions, resigned to Oriental delays.
• Notwithstanding these plans for our well-being, unaccountable delays followed, making our situation daily more trying.
• A frequent use of the dictionary may facilitate the progress of the one, while it delays that of the other.
• Charles of Blois, with all his personal valor, was so scrupulously devout that he often added to the embarrassments and at the same time the delays of war.
• His delays were so tantalizing that they might well have revived unpleasant memories of the famous X.
• After many delays Evelina appeared in January 1778.
• Alfred went back to Oxford to read for his first class, and Julia to her district visiting, while the terrible delays of the law went on.
• Delays, however, took place, and it was not until 1718 that the measures, from Dunkirk on the north to the southern extremity of France, were completed.
• CHAPTER XV THE FOREST FIGHT Robert thought they would march at once, but annoying delays occurred.
• When after hundreds of delays we did reach the firing-line, we always announced we were on our way back to Paris and would convey there postal cards and letters.
• And after annoying delays they were allowed to pass with a warning to come soon with more food, or their houses would be burned over their heads.
• Anson immediately repaired to Spithead, with a resolution to sail with the first fair wind, flattering himself that all his delays were now at an end.
• It is from these early flowers that outdoor Tomatoes can be successfully ripened, and the removal of the main shoot delays their production.
• Adams and myself from that place, and from one another, and the delays occasioned by this circumstance, are certainly just.
• Sometimes he delays that he may give a better, fuller answer.
• They have told of the groaning and screaming, the heavy smells, the delays and neglect.
• They are mostly Germans, but they show a decidedly American quality in the impatience they manifest at the delays to which they are subjected.
• After many delays, we put our baggage into one canoe, and ourselves into the other, and pushed off into the rapid current of the Napo.
• There had been one or two delays, caused by various small happenings, but finally they had steamed into the junction station, where they took a way train for Bentonville.
• The senate being in consequence incensed against the consuls, by whose delays the allies had been betrayed, ordered a dictator to be created.
• Or, rather, her delays are so altered by exaggeration as to lose touch with Nature.
• What should he do with a contrary wind? Tack about? But if he was obliged to come to that, what new delays and what risks of being thrown into the offing.
• The Adelaide Hospital is close to this factory, and it is possible that the proximity of the hospital, delays or hinders military operations against the factory.
• The delays we had, gave them a chance to catch up to us.
• Emily Bronte seems to have a nearly unparalleled unconsciousness of the delays, the charms, the pauses and preparations of imagery.
• There were far more formalities and delays before the travellers could cross the Tournay bridge across the Scheldt.
• Difficulties and delays were properly put in the way of exercising such a prerogative.
• From Este Shelley and Mary took her to Venice to consult a physician, a trip which was beset with delays and difficulties.
• Owing to contrary winds, storms, and delays at Cadiz in repairing damages, we have only arrived at Naples this evening.
• If several were associated in the exercise of this power, disagreement and discord would be likely to happen, and to cause frequent and injurious delays.

Similar words containing LAY without suffix s and without prefix de

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