Sample Sentences for
derive
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    Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.  (source)
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    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)
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    Atticus derived a reasonable income from the law.  (source)
    derived = got (received)
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    Okonkwo turned from one side to the other and derived a kind of pleasure from the pain his back gave him.  (source)
    derived = got
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    That person is the person from whom you derive your expectations, and the secret is solely held by that person and by me.  (source)
    derive = get
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    The walk and the pleasure he derives from tripping Leon seem to sober him up.†  (source)
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    —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)
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    To those who have cherished an affection for a faithful and sagacious dog, I need hardly be at the trouble of explaining the nature or the intensity of the gratification thus derivable.  (source)
    derivable = able to be gotten (from something else)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    *the same Well may men know, but that it be a fool, That every part deriveth from its whole.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She deriveth" in older English, today we say "She derives."
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    And not only this, but to that ever-contracting, dropping circle ashore, who, for any reason, possessed the privilege of a less banned approach to him; to that timid circle the above hinted casualty—remaining, as it did, moodily unaccounted for by Ahab—invested itself with terrors, not entirely underived from the land of spirits and of wails.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in underived means not and reverses the meaning of derived. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    In a house where there was little money and little food, your power was derived from who you could order around.  (source)
    derived = gotten
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    But to her credit, Parwana did not seem to derive any satisfaction from hitting him.†  (source)
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    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)
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