Sample Sentences forderivation (auto-selected)
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Your derivation is so fast and instinctive that you can't even tell how you got the answer.† (source)
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And if my language offends you, sir, look up the derivation of the offending word.† (source)
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His great round head, set as it was on a small-limbed and squattish body, gave him the look of a primitive clay figurine, some household idol of obscure and cultic derivation.† (source)
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Recipe' is a modern derivation.† (source)
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As we finished Chapter One last THE HOG WARTS HIGH INQUISITOR lesson, I would like you all to turn to page nineteen today and commence "Chapter Two, Common Defensive Theories and their Derivation".† (source)
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They were waiting for something to stir in the dead city, some gray form to rise, some ancient, ancestral shape to come galloping across the vacant sea bottom on an ancient, armored steel of impossible lineage, of unbelievable derivation.† (source)
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"Frankly," I said, "I'm a little curious about the derivation of all this."† (source)
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The derivations of words, curious usages.† (source)
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It was strange in the sense that he could discover neither derivation nor motivation nor explanation for it.† (source)
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Could she really be that interested in root derivations?† (source)
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The opinion of the Yard was divided respecting the derivation of its name.† (source)
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As we covered each postulate and theorem, it soon became clear that Dorothy actually understood their derivations better than I did.† (source)
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Terry croaked, "Don't trust math too much, son," and he so confused him with references to the thermo-dynamical derivation of the mass action law, and to the oxidation reduction potential, that he stumbled again into raging humility, again saw himself an impostor and a tenth-rater.† (source)
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I believe in barbecue in all its regional derivations, in its ethnic translations, in forms that range from white-tablecloth presentations of cunningly sauced costillas, to Chinese take-out spareribs that stain your fingers red, to the most authentic product of the tar-paper rib shacks of the Deep South.† (source)
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When I asked him if he could do without money, he showed the convenience of money in such a way as to suggest and coincide with the most philosophical accounts of the origin of this institution, and the very derivation of the word pecunia.† (source)
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But when you give your answers, make sure to write out your derivations.† (source)
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