Example sentences for: derivations

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

  • The differences are hard to discern, but no matter, for the book is a user-friendly excursion through the history of the language, with many good examples of loanwords, derivations, and other linguistic incunabula, curiosa, and paraphernalia interestingly presented in a lively fashion by a good writer.

  • There is, for example, no uncertainly about the derivations of matrimony and mother , both from the Indo-European * matter meaning `mother,' the former through Latin and Norman French and the latter through a Germanic root.

  • For example, some have derivations distinctly removed from the equipment used or the court on which the game is played.

  • In his treatise on words and expressions derived from firearms [XV,1], Richard Lederer was often correct in his selection of words but was often wrong as to their meanings and derivations.

  • The surroundings supported both derivations; the ores from the mines supplied red paint, and a type of onion, akin to garlic, grew there.


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