Example sentences for: derives

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

  • My designation derives from a splash of vivid writing in Francis Thompson's A Corymbus for Autumn in which he proclaims how “day's dying dragon” was

  • Johnson dismissively defines Whig as the name of a faction and spitefully remarks that the term derives from whigamore denoting people from south-west counties of Scotland, whose poverty drove them to rise against the court and Scottish royal authority etc.

  • A great many words in Quechua begin with hua- or gua- (used interchangeably), so when the hacienda owner tells his Indian quachimán to keep a sharp lookout on his nightly rounds, neither may realize that the word derives from watchman . And when Mami is persuaded that daughter needs a new sweater and buys her a chompa , neither may think of the long departed Englishwomen whose jumpers brought the word into the language.

  • , E. cinerea ) but which is literally `near or close to heather'; and fraoch nam Meinnearach is assigned to clan Menzies, though the name probably derives from Archibald Menzies, a well-known 18th-century botanist of North America, rather than from a very rare heather this clan is not likely to have encountered, never mind worn into battle.

  • The name Acropolis derives from the Greek words acro meaning “highest point” and polis, meaning town.


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