derive

in a sentence

Atticus derived a reasonable income from the law.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

Okonkwo turned from one side to the other and derived a kind of pleasure from the pain his back gave him.  (source) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, 1958

In a house where there was little money and little food, your power was derived from who you could order around.  (source) James McBride, The Color of Water, 1996

Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they give an intimate flavour to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation.  (source) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929

Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

The walk and the pleasure he derives from tripping Leon seem to sober him up.†  (source) Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, 2018

—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,  (source) Thomas Jefferson et al., The Declaration of Independence, 1776

Being naturally of a serious turn, my attention was directed to the solid advantages derivable from a residence here, rather than to the effervescent pleasures which are the grand object with too many visitants.†  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Celestial Railroad, 1843

Nor with oracular response obscure, Such, as or ere the Lamb of God was slain, Beguil'd the credulous nations; but, in terms Precise and unambiguous lore, replied The spirit of paternal love, enshrin'd, Yet in his smile apparent; and thus spake: "Contingency, unfolded not to view Upon the tablet of your mortal mold, Is all depictur'd in the' eternal sight; But hence deriveth not necessity, More then the tall ship, hurried down the flood, Doth from the vision, that reflects the scene.†  (source) Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, 1320

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) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851

Watanabe derived another pleasure from violence.†  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

That person is the person from whom you derive your expectations, and the secret is solely held by that person and by me.  (source) Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861

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) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993