Example sentences for: derek

How can you use “derek” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Worse yet, Derek's wife, Ruth Yannatta Goldway, was elected mayor of Santa Monica in 1981 on a pro-rent-control ticket.

  • The premiere issue features a hot and heavy photo shoot, as Bo Derek and Farrah Fawcett get wild in Palm Springs.

  • One of the lobbyists was a callow and garrulous young man named Derek Draper who had been a close aide to Blair and his deputies.

  • Derek Walcott and I didn't want an auteur director.

  • Still, I am nagged by inadequacies in Green's definition of high-five , which suggests that each individual might be simply clapping his hands together, and I am bothered by the ODNW's failure to note the date of entry into the language, saying that the earliest use of the term dates to 1979; I think that Green is right to hint at the fact that the gesture preceded its use in sport: my guess is that slap five arose among black teenagers or, perhaps, musicians as a form of greeting, approval, farewell, and the like and was later carried over into sports (perhaps, as the ODNW suggests, by Derek Smith), where it became high five . It seems unlikely that we shall ever know for sure.


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