Example sentences for: derives

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

  • Grisham, by contrast, begins with the law and derives the criminal.

  • The principle of national self-determination, urged so adamantly in the twentieth century, derives from the same source: every nation is entitled to preserve its own culture, cultivate its language, and express itself as a subject of the international community.

  • For example, a single Georgia informant used fatpoke meaning a `fat person,' which one might reasonably guess derives from analogy with slowpoke , or it may also be an r -less pronunciation and figurative use of fat pork , a dialect name for `fat back' or `salt pork.

  • Indeed, structure-based drug design usually derives novel compound structures from ligands previously described.

  • Some are for men only — one simulating battle preparations probably derives from the Islamic tradition.


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