toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

derive
in a sentence

show 189 more with this conextual meaning
  • —That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,   (source)
    deriving = getting (telling where something comes from)
  • Watanabe derived another pleasure from violence.†   (source)
  • They're derived from a large number of observations.†   (source)
  • To understand the significance of this cultural detachment, you must appreciate that much of my family's, my neighborhood's, and my community's identity derives from our love of country.†   (source)
  • The walk and the pleasure he derives from tripping Leon seem to sober him up.†   (source)
  • My mother had what we called "Thomas hands," a tag derived from her maiden name: hands that hit so hard you had to be hit only once to know you never wanted to be hit again.†   (source)
  • The mystical teachings of the Kabbala drew heavily on anagrams—rearranging the letters of Hebrew words to derive new meanings.†   (source)
  • Babi taught her to derive the quadratic equation, showed her how to factor polynomials and plot parametric curves.†   (source)
  • Everything else — from ambition to love to despair — derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.†   (source)
  • It derives in part from the appearance of the animals, which are quick and strong, but small for dinosaurs-just a hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds each.†   (source)
  • Did they merely represent how he was washing his hands of the great American pastime, or did he want me to assuage my grief by indulging in the pleasure I would derive from burning all those baseball cards?†   (source)
  • How could he trust such a self-serving idea derived from hope and desire?†   (source)
  • Then she'd spray herself with a citrus-derived chemical compound to disguise her human pheromones unless she did that there could be trouble, as the men would smell her and think it was time to mate.†   (source)
  • The Asparagus is not, technically, an asparagus spear, nor is it derived from asparagus parts.†   (source)
  • It didn't compare with the satisfaction derived from nursing a human being, but in some way it was similar.†   (source)
  • In fact, doing so would have forever connected Henrietta and her family with the cells and any medical information eventually derived from their DNA.†   (source)
  • There is a certain grim satis faction to be derived from struggling upwards, however slowly; but the bulk of one's time is necessarily spent in the extreme squalor of a high camp, when even this solace is lacking.†   (source)
  • Derived from what became known as the .†   (source)
  • So I guess her coven ought to be able to derive some comfort from this experience.†   (source)
  • Competition for the few jobs available had intensified as thousands of unemployed men from around the country—unhappily bearing the label "hobo," derived possibly from the railroad cry "ho, boy"—converged on Chicago in hopes of getting exposition work.†   (source)
  • But that may be beside the point, because from an emotional standpoint, and quite apart from the religious significance of the events for Christians, both holidays derive much of their power from their proximity in the calendar year to moments on which we humans place great emphasis.†   (source)
  • The mine had a lot of the solvent derived from coal tar, but it was too volatile.†   (source)
  • The Kabbalists— Jewish mystics of Spain and Palestine-believed that super. normal insight and power could be derived from properly combining the letters of the Divine Name.†   (source)
  • In 1978, the typical teenage boy in the United States drank about seven ounces of soda every day; today he drinks nearly three times that amount, deriving 9 percent of his daily caloric intake from soft drinks.†   (source)
  • Isn't it basically the person being read to who derives the benefit and the satisfaction?†   (source)
  • Capricorn's Maid As I never saw my father or my mother … my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones.†   (source)
  • Much of the power and prestige it went on to gain derived from the fact that unlike other such organizations which have come and gone, it managed to keep its numbers extremely low, thus giving this claim some credibility.†   (source)
  • Mackenzie, I am neither male nor female, even though both genders are derived from my nature.†   (source)
  • CHAKOBSA: the so-called "magnetic language" derived in part from the ancient Bhotani (Bhotani Jib — jib meaning dialect).†   (source)
  • Hume would have answered that the eighteen-year-old had no thoughts whatsoever, and in giving this answer would have defined himself as an empiricist, one who believes all knowledge is derived exclusively from the senses.†   (source)
  • Fortunately this mindfulness accorded with her nature: it brought her the same depth of pleasure Carl had derived from nurturing his strawberries.†   (source)
  • Even human consciousness—or the soul—derives from the movement of tiny particles in the brain.†   (source)
  • They were industrious, orderly, and energetic, hoping to prove beyond a doubt De Gobineau's hypothesis that "all civilizations derive from the white race, that none can exist without its help, and that a society is great and brilliant only so far as it preserves the blood of the noble group that created it.†   (source)
  • It's common for a young geisha to derive her name from the name of her older sister.†   (source)
  • "All human beings are born with rights derived from God that no earthly power can take away" The sun was shining through the stained glass window of John the Evangelist, depicted in a loincloth some church ladies had complained was inappropriate, even in our tropical heat.†   (source)
  • And the Haitian tongue, Creole, was not, as was sometimes said, "a coarse patois" but in essence a Romance language, derived from French and, in some of its phonetic habits and grammatical structures, also clearly African.†   (source)
  • From The Shadow Exploded: Documented Facts and Specific Conclusions Derived from the Case of Carietta White, by David R. Congress (Tulane University Press: 1981), p.34: It can hardly be disputed that failure to note specific instances of telekinesis during the White girl's earlier years must be attributed to the conclusion offered by White and Stearns in their paper Telekinesis: A Wild Talent Revisited-that the ability to move objects by effort of the will alone comes to the fore only…†   (source)
  • Eragon fashioned the spells so they would derive their energy from Sloan and not himself.†   (source)
  • Certainly her strongest trait, the talent that gave support to all the others, derived from her father: a fine-honed sense of organization.†   (source)
  • Even he could derive little satisfaction from the prospect of killing a tharn rabbit half his own size, in obedience to a contemptuous taunt.†   (source)
  • But their real power derives from the fact that the reviews are the reports of volunteers — of diners who want to share their opinions with others.†   (source)
  • Not only are you to find these four individuals, but you must be able to describe to Mr. Hamilton the benefit or the lesson that is derived from each specific situation.†   (source)
  • The Ku Klux Klan—much like politicians or real-estate agents or stockbrokers—was a group whose power was derived in large part from the fact that it hoarded information.†   (source)
  • The tension I observed in Nora derived from how many "contracts" were available, whether she and Jack could fulfill them, and whether the units of drugs would actually arrive as scheduled—all factors that seemed to change at a moment's notice.†   (source)
  • The woman seemed to derive a certain amusement from the way he hobbled around trying to gain control of his limbs.†   (source)
  • Follow-up studies have calculated the number slightly differently, deriving alternative figures for "missing women" of between 60 million and 101 million.†   (source)
  • "Wahhabi" is derived from the term Al-Wahhab, which means, literally, "generous giver" in Arabic, one of Allah's many pseudonyms.†   (source)
  • It is probable that the craft of building, as many other crafts beside, was derived from the Dunedain.†   (source)
  • You are not a Vanderbilt, whose fortune was made by a vulgar tugboat captain, or a Rockefeller, whose wealth was amassed through unscrupulous speculations in crude petroleum; or a Reynolds or Duke, whose income was derived from the sale to the unsuspecting public of products containing cancer-causing resins and tars; and you are certainly not an Astor, whose family, I believe, still lets rooms.†   (source)
  • All languages that derive from Latin form the word compassion by combining the prefix meaning with(corn-) and the root meaning suffering (Late Latin,passio).†   (source)
  • That drug, derived from the poison darts of Amazon tribes, paralyzes all the muscles, leaving you still as death, so that the ventilator can do its work unimpeded.†   (source)
  • The first sections of the book were a little too easy for me, but the final chapter on logistics, in which she showed how Principia Mathematica provides a basis from which the concepts, operations, and relations of arithmetic and other branches of mathematics may be derived, I found to be very exciting.†   (source)
  • I cannot consent to the bloody consequences of so silly a contest about so silly an object, conducted in the silliest manner that history or observation has ever furnished an instance of, and from which we are likely to derive nothing but poverty, disgrace, defeat, and ruin.†   (source)
  • It's in place and functioning, and under our control we could derive considerable benefits from it.†   (source)
  • But whereas most of these things were abstract or inanimate or simply unaware of her dislike, from these, her only grandchildren, she derived a much more gratifying return and set about making their stay, over the ensuing months, as miserable as possible.†   (source)
  • He had a hunch that eventually he would arrive at a rational explanation derived from this consideration of the supernatural, a provable theory that would be as logical as the meticulously structured prose of Henry James.†   (source)
  • His power all derives from Lollys.†   (source)
  • All of the material contained within this book is derived from unclassified publications and sources; nothing written here is intended to confirm or deny, officially or unofficially, any events described or the activities of any individual, government, or agency.†   (source)
  • In some sense or other--we can skip the details--importance is derived from the immanence of infinitude in the finite.†   (source)
  • The existence of angels and demons in the world of Shadowhunters is the ur-myth from which every other aspect of the stories is derived.†   (source)
  • She had a homely face, a bad complexion and a look of impertinent condescension derived from the fact that she belonged to one of the very best families.†   (source)
  • It is one of the "r"-less speech patterns deriving from some of the earliest English settlers, who did not pronounce the "r" in words like father.†   (source)
  • My answer was a lesson in history and sociology and you could derive some of the major differences between Ireland and Italy by the emotional diffidence of my response.†   (source)
  • These are all thought to be imbued with magic derived from the alignment of the earth and the stars,' " I read with a yawn.†   (source)
  • A straight line would cut apart the leaf and so a curling alphabet was derived from its Indian cousin.†   (source)
  • I derive, in the distress I feel for both my clients and myself in this case, consolation from two sources.†   (source)
  • From this he derived great satisfaction, even joy, as he labored in the quarry under a rapidly changing winter sky.†   (source)
  • Why, then, were they taking to their heels in such numbers that it was necessary to pass a law to compel them to enjoy the benefits they derived from slavery?†   (source)
  • It is from this tradition that the modern-day "wet T-shirt contest" is believed to have derived.†   (source)
  • The benefits derived from it will chiefly be watched and perceived by speculative men.†   (source)
  • "I have got my army safely out of its breastworks, and in order to follow me the enemy must abandon his lines and can derive no further benefits from his railroads or James River," he notes with relief.†   (source)
  • … know that government derives its power from the consent of the governed.†   (source)
  • With minor exceptions some ninety-one percent of the colonists have citizenship, original or derived, in various member nations of the Federated Nations.†   (source)
  • It derived its name and very identity from an act of revenge.†   (source)
  • And, of course, any precious metals that are derived from such smelting are naturally the property of our Horvath protectors.†   (source)
  • The weather was generally good, and the sensation of freedom which we derived from the limitless land was as invigorating as the wide-ranging life we led.†   (source)
  • It is an adequacy deriving from what Mandelstam called "the steadfastness of speech articulation," from the resolution and independence which the entirely realized poem sponsors.†   (source)
  • And I feel pretty safe saying that I rarely read anything for pleasure, although I've derived what I could call pure ecstasy obsessing over lines from T. S. Eliot or Gerard Manley Hopkins, my little Oxford English Dictionary, magnifying glass in hand, hellbent on getting at that one true meaning.†   (source)
  • The name derives from my prep-school days down in my native state of Virginia.†   (source)
  • She derived from what I already knew for myself, even felt I had always known.†   (source)
  • My knowledge of Canuck French derives from motion pictures usually with Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, and it consists largely of "By gar."†   (source)
  • So I did, omitting only the substance I had derived from the babbling part.†   (source)
  • One night, sitting in a West Baltimore police station, patiently hating a skinny little clerk but forcing a smile nevertheless as he described for the hundredthtime the pleasure he derived from attending hangings, I saw a cop come in with his ear in one hand and the man who had bitten it off gripped firmly in the other.†   (source)
  • These other charges would derive from the first; that HansDieter Mundt is the agent of an imperialist power.†   (source)
  • In the words of one of his opponents, it meant "political death to any man to even whisper a breath against 'old Bullion" (the nickname derived from Benton's fight for hard money).†   (source)
  • Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.   (source)
    derive = get
  • At that age I became acquainted with the celebrated poets of our own country; but it was only when it had ceased to be in my power to derive its most important benefits from such a conviction that I perceived the necessity of becoming acquainted with more languages than that of my native country.   (source)
  • As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their tombstones.   (source)
    derived = got
  • So forcibly did he dwell upon this symbol, for the hour or more during which his periods were rolling over the people's heads, that it assumed new terrors in their imagination, and seemed to derive its scarlet hue from the flames of the infernal pit.   (source)
    derive = get
  • I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest practical advantage.   (source)
  • But to her credit, Parwana did not seem to derive any satisfaction from hitting him.†   (source)
  • Has it occurred to you that she may have derived her corroborative details from the same source?†   (source)
  • Other popular fast foods derive their flavor from unexpected sources.†   (source)
  • The purpose of a room derives from the special nature of a room.†   (source)
  • An empiricist will derive all knowledge of the world from what the senses tell us.†   (source)
  • The Inoue School of dance, practiced by the geisha of Gion, derives from Noh theater.†   (source)
  • The word heretic derives from that moment in history.†   (source)
  • It's a numerical approach that uses quantity to derive quality.†   (source)
  • Formal beginning to Fremen religious incantation (derived from panoplia propheticus).†   (source)
  • This field derives from Phase One of the suspensor-nullification effect.†   (source)
  • The word Sangreal derives from San Greal—or Holy Grail.†   (source)
  • Name derives from its common use in collapsible structures that are opened by "fanning" them out.†   (source)
  • His reputation was derived from the way he handled the words.†   (source)
  • All his authority derived from his father, the girl had to understand that.†   (source)
  • We have a right to it, derived from our Maker.†   (source)
  • The General delivered a rather grumpy speech on the invaluable lessons to be derived from losing.†   (source)
  • Second, I derive consolation from the thought that this court is a court of justice.†   (source)
  • "Tommen's throne derives from Robert, you know that."†   (source)
  • On the other hand, men generally derive confidence from a group.†   (source)
  • Linguistically, Cajun includes expressions derived from French (co jaire for why?†   (source)
  • He used the terms "Batutsi" and "Bahutu," derived from the Kirundi plural.†   (source)
  • There are no profits henceforth to be derived from that farm.†   (source)
  • The Senate, on the other hand, will derive its powers from the States as equal societies.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the true interpretation is whether it conforms to the source from which it is derived.†   (source)
  • Tomorrow return and we will continue to derive great pleasure from the joy of learning.†   (source)
  • Who else among the Sons of Jacob Think Tankers would have come up with the notion that the Aunts should take names derived from commercial products available to women in the immediate pre-Gilead period, and thus familiar and reassuring to them — the names of cosmetic lines, cake mixes, frozen desserts, and even medicinal remedies?†   (source)
  • The word noetic, Trish had learned, derived from the ancient Greek nous—translating roughly to "inner knowledge" or "intuitive consciousness."†   (source)
  • The inherent dangerousness of the enterprise appealed to her far more than the game itself; she was not good enough at arithmetic to care whether she won or lost, there was no real joy in trying to beat the law of averages, but she derived some pleasure from deceiving Miss Blunt.†   (source)
  • Primarily, though, modern man had relegated magic squares to the category of "recreational mathematics," some people still deriving pleasure from the quest to discover new "magical" configurations.†   (source)
  • During my thirty-four-year tenure as a climber, I'd found that the most rewarding aspects of mountaineering derive from the sport's emphasis on self-reliance, on making critical decisions and dealing with the consequences, on personal responsibility.†   (source)
  • He showed the absurdity of trying to derive zero from any form of mass-energy, and then asked, rhetorically, if that meant the number zero was "unscientific."†   (source)
  • Other tributaries swelled his happiness; he still derived satisfaction from the thought of his first—the best in his year he was told.†   (source)
  • Mathematicians used to think that their language had some special inherent trueness that derived from the laws of logic.†   (source)
  • These practical kabbalists used a so-called 'archangelic alphabet,' derived from firstcentury Greek and Aramaic theurgic alphabets, which resembled cuneiform.†   (source)
  • In looking back over my career thus far, my chief satisfaction derives from what I achieved during those years, and I am today nothing but proud and grateful to have been given such a privilege.†   (source)
  • Indeed, willingness of Hopkins scientists to provide access to the cultures is perhaps the principal reason for the great benefits that have derived from their use.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it's the original line that gave rise to Euclid's understanding of lineness; a reference line from which was derived the original calculations of the first astronomers that charted the stars.†   (source)
  • The noninvasive type is sometimes called "sugar-icing carcinoma," because it grows in a smooth layered sheet across the surface of the cervix, but its official name is carcinoma in situ, which derives from the Latin for "cancer in its original place."†   (source)
  • Chicken Mc-Nuggets, which became wildly popular among young children, still derive much of their flavor from beef additives — and contain twice as much fat per ounce as a hamburger.†   (source)
  • By this is meant a philosophy which holds that all real things derive from concrete material substances.†   (source)
  • The "Hatsu" came from Hatsumomo, and even though it ought to have helped Pumpkin to have a name derived from a geisha as well known as Hatsumomo, in the end it didn't work that way.†   (source)
  • And Isaac the Blind, an early Kabbalist, said that, to quote Gershom Scholem's translation, 'The speech of men is connected with divine speech and all language whether heavenly or human derives from one source: the Divine Name.'†   (source)
  • Are you saying the printout shows the first ambiguous signs of a barely perceptible condition deriving from minimal acceptable spillage exposure?†   (source)
  • The intoxicating feeling of control derived from physical transformation had addicted millions to flesh-altering practices …. cosmetic surgery, body piercing, bodybuilding, and steroids …. even bulimia and transgendering.†   (source)
  • But now, having thought further, I believe I may have been a little confused about this matter; that in fact this fragment of memory derives from events that took place on an evening at least a few months after the death of Miss Kenton's aunt - the evening, in fact, when the young Mr Cardinal turned up at Darlington Hall rather unexpectedly.†   (source)
  • Commendably, it was a look she was able to maintain as she took in the small block of typewriting and in a glance absorbed it whole—a unit of meaning whose force and color was derived from the single repeated word.†   (source)
  • It occurs to me that elsewhere in attempting to gather such recollections, I may well have asserted that this memory derived from the minutes immediately after Miss Kenton's receiving news of her aunt's death; that is to say, the occasion when, having left her to be alone with her grief, I realized out in the corridor that I had not offered her my condolences.†   (source)
  • Neckties had been required six days a week when Langdon attended Phillips Exeter Academy, and despite the headmaster's romantic claims that the origin of the cravat went back to the silk fascalia worn by Roman orators to warm their vocal cords, Langdon knew that, etymologically, cravat actually derived from a ruthless band of "Croat" mercenaries who donned knotted neckerchiefs before they stormed into battle.†   (source)
  • Six decades later she would describe how at the age of thirteen she had written her way through a whole history of literature, beginning with stories derived from the European tradition of folk-tales, through drama with simple moral intent, to arrive at an impartial psychological realism which she had discovered for herself, one special morning during a heat wave in 1935.†   (source)
  • In response to inquiries from Vegetarian Journal, however, McDonald's did acknowledge that its fries derive some of their characteristic flavor from "animal products."†   (source)
  • Our structured reality is preselected on the basis of value, and really to understand structured reality requires an understanding of the value source from which it's derived.†   (source)
  • Because Noh is a very ancient art that has always been patronized by the Imperial court, dancers in Gion consider their art superior to the school of dance practiced in the Pontocho district across the river, which derives from Kabuki.†   (source)
  • Chapter 17: Illegal, Immoral, and Deplorable Southam's cancer cell injections are documented in many scientific articles he authored or coauthored, including "Neoplastic Changes Developing in Epithelial Cell Lines Derived from Normal Persons," Science 124, no. 3212 (July 20, 1956); "Transplantation of Human Tumors," letter, Science 125, no. 3239 (January 25, 1957); "Homotransplantation of Human Cell Lines," Science 125, no. 3239 (January 25, 1957); "Applications of Immunology to…†   (source)
  • The artist should thus derive the freest possible inspiration from his dream images and strive toward a 'super realism,' in which the boundaries between dream and reality were dissolved.†   (source)
  • The phrase derives from the French Sangraal, which evolved to Sangreal, and was eventually split into two words, San Greal.†   (source)
  • Many people incorrectly assume the male symbol is derived from a shield and spear, while the female symbol represents a mirror reflecting beauty.†   (source)
  • For a selection of HPV research involving HeLa cells, see Michael Boshart et al., "A New Type of Papillomavirus DNA, Its Presence in Genital Cancer Biopsies and in Cell Lines Derived from Cervical Cancer," EMBO Journal 3, no. 5 (1984); R. A. Jesudasan et al., "Rearrangement of Chromosome Band nqi3 in HeLa Cells," Anticancer Research 14 (1994); N. C. Popescu et al., "Integration Sites of Human Papillomavirus 18 DNA Sequences on HeLa Cell Chromosomes," Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 44…†   (source)
  • Benzaldehyde derived through a different process — by mixing oil of clove and the banana flavor, amyl acetate — does not contain any cyanide.†   (source)
  • It was all table manners, not derived from any sense of kindness or decency or humanity, but originally from an egotistic desire to look like gentlemen and ladies.†   (source)
  • As so often occurs in these situations, I had become blind to the obvious - that is, until my pondering over the implications of Miss Kenton's letter finally opened my eyes to the simple truth: that these small errors of recent months have derived from nothing more sinister than a faulty staff plan.†   (source)
  • The Jewish tetragrammaton YHWH—the sacred name of God—in fact derived from Jehovah, an androgynous physical union between the masculine Jah and the pre-Hebraic name for Eve, Havah.†   (source)
  • When almond flavor (benzaldehyde) is derived from natural sources, such as peach and apricot pits, it contains traces of hydrogen cyanide, a deadly poison.†   (source)
  • These false images are deflated so rapidly and completely you're bound to be very discouraged very soon if you've derived your gumption from ego rather than Quality.†   (source)
  • He pointed to the paragraph that mentioned her: Parenthetically, medical geneticists making use of the study of cells in place of the whole patient have "cashed in" on a reservoir of morphologic, biochemical, and other information in cell biology derived in no small part from study of the famous cell line cultured from the patient pictured on this page, Henrietta Lacks.†   (source)
  • "A natural flavor," says Terry Acree, a professor of food science technology at Cornell University, "is a flavor that's been derived with an out-of-date technology."†   (source)
  • …"Production of Cells of a 'Hybrid' Nature in Cultures in Vitro of 2 Cellular Strains in Combination," Comptes Rendus Hebdoma daires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 215 (October 24, 1960); H. Harris and J. F Watkins, "Hybrid Cells Derived from Mouse and Man: Artificial Heterokaryons of Mammalian Cells from Different Species," Nature 205 (February 13, 1965); M. Weiss and H. Green, "Human-Mouse Hybrid Cell Lines Containing Partial Complements of Human Chromosomes and Functioning…†   (source)
  • ROSLIN This ancient spelling, Langdon explained to Sophie, derived from the Rose Line meridian on which the chapel sat; or, as Grail academics preferred to believe, from the "Line of Rose"—the ancestral lineage of Mary Magdalene.†   (source)
  • The Universal TA-XT2 Texture Analyzer, produced by the Texture Technologies Corporation, performs calculations based on data derived from twenty-five separate probes.†   (source)
  • As Langdon loaded his slide projector, he explained that the number PHI was derived from the Fibonacci sequence—a progression famous not only because the sum of adjacent terms equaled the next term, but because the quotients of adjacent terms possessed the astonishing property of approaching the number 1.†   (source)
  • According to the FDA, these must be derived entirely from natural sources — from herbs, spices, fruits, vegetables, beef, chicken, yeast, bark, roots, etc. Consumers prefer to see natural flavors on a label, out of a belief that they are healthier.†   (source)
  • Once there, they might evolve into unusual forms, perhaps even learning to derive energy for life directly from the sun, instead of requiring food as an energy source.†   (source)
  • Such results could be had from a variety of products, including a stomach-turning mix of Epsom salts and water—chased by two fingers of rye to stop the gagging reflex—a plant-derived purgative called jalap, or bottles of a wretched-tasting formula known as Pluto Water.†   (source)
  • The name was derived from a sterile house on New York's Seventy-first Street where the resurrected Jason Bourne was trained.†   (source)
  • It derives from the Old Tongue.†   (source)
  • He writes, of the situation in Rwanda, "The Europeans merely adopted a practice they found on the spot and the terminology they used to express it derived from the speech of the local elites."†   (source)
  • On the other hand, a young knight's repute derived at least in part from the honor of the man who conferred knighthood on him.†   (source)
  • "You really dislike him, don't you?" said Gillette's companion, a heavy-shouldered man in a black raincoat whose accent was derived from a Slavic language somewhere in Europe.†   (source)
  • That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.†   (source)
  • That made recyclable American scrap paper, derived from wood pulp and worth very little locally, a valuable commodity in China--particularly as industrialization led to soaring demand for paper.†   (source)
  • Steel coming toward Alessandro at whatever velocity, as long as it was a blade, allowed him a surge of happiness undoubtedly derived from the many hours of vigorous release and good fellowship of fencing classes that broke day-long immersions in Greek and Latin.†   (source)
  • There were minor differences in Electron-density mapping of Andromeda structure as derived from micrographic studies.†   (source)
  • In languages that derive from Latin, compassion means: we cannot look on coolly as others suffer; or, we sympathize with those who suffer.†   (source)
  • They would derive great conveniences from it, on the one hand, and much property would be destroyed on the other.†   (source)
  • …heritages; but surely every dweller in the country must hope that the governments involved in its governance can devise institutions which will allow that partition to become a bit more like the net on a tennis court, a demarcation allowing for agile give-and-take, for encounter and contending, prefiguring a future where the vitality that flowed in the beginning from those bracing words "enemy" and "allies" might finally derive from a less binary and altogether less binding vocabulary.†   (source)
  • Her celebrity derives not from her present occupation but a previous one-dance-hall hostess, an incarnation not indicated by her appearance.†   (source)
  • Also, three days after initial appearance of a very rough limerick, one that implied that Warden's fatness derived from unsavory habits, this limerick popped up on pressure-sticky labels with cartoon improved so that fat victim flinching from Simon's pitchfork was recognizably Mort the Wart.†   (source)
  • "How selfish soever man may be supposed," Smith wrote, "there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it."†   (source)
  • Chippers may be people who have the genes to derive pleasure from nicotine, but not the genes to handle it in large doses.†   (source)
  • And Murtagh had derived entirely too much pleasure from the anguish he inflicted upon Eragon by revealing they were both sons of Morzan-first and last of the thirteen Dragon Riders, the Forsworn, who had betrayed their compatriots to Galbatorix.†   (source)
  • But many copies contain the true account (as an alternative), derived no doubt from notes by Frodo or Samwise, both of whom learned the truth, though they seem to have been unwilling to delete anything actually written by the old hobbit himself.†   (source)
  • Others say it derives from law.†   (source)
  • But as a matter of fact, it's extremely rash to extend conclusions derived from observation far beyond the scale of magnitude to which the observation was confined.†   (source)
  • Hizdahr's crown derives from mine, and he commands the allegiance of some of the most fearsome fighters in the world.†   (source)
  • As Reed would write in a report to Congress—a report soon published in the Pennsylvania Journal—Washington replied simply that he was "not vested with any powers on this subject by those from whom he derived his authority and power."†   (source)
  • That story was derived from the earlier chapters of the Red Book, composed by Bilbo himself, the first Hobbit to become famous in the world at large, and called by him There and Back Again, since they told of his journey into the East and his return: an adventure which later involved all the Hobbits in the great events of that Age that are here related.†   (source)
  • But what sorted out the smokers-to-be from the never again smokers is that the smokers-to-be derived some overall pleasure from the experience — like the feeling of a buzz or a heady pleasurable feeling.†   (source)
  • Kitsch may not, therefore, depend on an unusual situation; it must derive from the basic images people have engraved in their memories: the ungrateful daughter, the neglected father, children running on the grass, the motherland betrayed, first love.†   (source)
  • Just as I support my life, neither by robbery nor alms, but by my own effort, so I do not seek to derive my happiness from the injury or the favor of others, but earn it by my own achievement.†   (source)
  • [Down East derives from sailing days, when going east usually meant sailing downwind) He says, "I listen to all the little kids that hang around my grandchildren and I don't hear it.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)