How to Use delta in a Sentence

delta

noun
  • Morning fog near the delta may not burn off until noon.
    — Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2026
  • But things have changed in recent years — in the delta and across the country.
    — Wanjohi Kabukuru, ajc, 8 Apr. 2023
  • More troubling, the delta between a smash and a dud has never been wider.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 May 2026
  • And during the spread of the delta variant, that risk was four times higher.
    — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Some groups slipped into corners of the delta rarely traversed by colonists.
    — Boyce Upholt, Wired, 23 July 2022
  • Sarah clearly caught her delta husband having a good time.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
  • The birds of the delta are a revelation.
    — Lucie Grace, TheWeek, 17 Apr. 2026
  • West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the sites of ancient gushing water once were.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Make sure to check the source of the delta 8 before making a purchase.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The bike’s pace, with a van shuttling us over longer hauls, feels perfectly tuned to the delta.
    — Chris Schalkx, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Even if the booster shot were based on the delta variant, that variant passed through a long time ago.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 22 July 2022
  • Papyrus reeds from the Nile delta were the paper of the ancient world.
    — Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • But the delta’s special status has not spared it from the extreme weather.
    — Paul Hockenos, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2022
  • That’s true of everyone from headwaters to delta, farm to city.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Across tens of thousands of customers, that delta isn’t a rounding error.
    — Erik Huberman, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Chirring insects, cool eels, darting dice snakes in the Volga delta.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The delta between the salary ceiling and floor becomes crucial.
    — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
  • In April, the rover arrived at the 40-meter-tall cliff at the delta’s edge.
    — Byeric Hand, science.org, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The slope from ocean to land is also quite small, with a large regular range of tides amid large river deltas.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • The Okavango is not your classic delta.
    — AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
  • And those who survived delta faced the risk of catching the later omicron variant.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii and Luke Money, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2022
  • That delta carries value in building the roster.
    — Zach Berman, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • Now, over 100 sols later, the rover is well on its way to the Jezero delta.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 June 2022
  • Even the laws around age limits for buying delta products are confusing.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
  • For the past four years, the DWR has been sampling algae in the delta.
    — Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • But with that comes the risk of accidents, hazards and drownings in the delta and local rivers.
    — Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • Omicron, in turn, was about three times more transmissible than the delta variant.
    — NBC News, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The challenge is there’s a delta between what the brands want to sell those goods for, and what off-price retailers want to pay.
    — David Moin, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Farmers also let their cows and pigs range freely in the delta, where the livestock overgraze and trample young trees.
    — James Hall, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The green, slimy algae were first detected in the delta in 1999.
    — Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 19 June 2026

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