Example sentences for: deriving

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

  • In this manner, an extensible hierarchical lexicon of building-block icons can be built by deriving new icons from existing icons.

  • So come along, as I demonstrate how to lose scads of money in four easy steps, without leaving my desk chair or deriving any sort of tangible return.

  • The choice for others is whether to force him to make the right choice, or to continue deriving profit and entertainment from his illness.

  • To the extent that FWER provides appreciably more stringent selection, attendant findings of significant differential gene expression are more likely to be validated (by follow-up experiment) than those deriving from FDR-controlling methods.

  • My fellow Slate columnist Robert Wright asked me recently: "Isn't it slightly absurd to apply the prefix over to something whose Greek root means under ?" As Wright knows, the hype in overhype probably comes from hypodermic , as in needle, the components of that term deriving from Greek words meaning "under the skin."


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