Delays Definition

Delays Sentence Examples

• Many delays arose in their execution, and it was not till 2 p.m.

• Determined in her faith and proud in her meekness, in opposition to the timid counsels of the military leaders, to the interested delays of the courtiers, to the scruples of the experts and the quarrelling of the doctors, she quoted her voices, who had, she said, commissioned her to raise the siege of Orleans and to conduct the gentle dauphin to Reims, there to be crowned.

• In 1643 negotiations were opened which, after many delays and in the face of countless difficulties, were at length, four years later, to terminate successfully.

• But at the very outset delays occurred.

• There were also delays, hesitations and cavils at home, which were more inexplicable.