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Example sentences for: derrick

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

Derrick Robertson got sentenced the other day to four months in prison for having consensual sex with a 20-year-old (female) private.
The separatists have new academic allies, the critical race theorists, led by New York University's Derrick Bell and University of Colorado's Richard Delgado.
Read your lament about Derrick Thomas, the Kansas City linebacker who was left paralyzed yesterday in a car accident, and I felt the same pang you did when I saw the news this morning that he'd been hurt.
As a typical example, we read that the word derrick , derived from the surname of a famous hangman, was in use for centuries as a name for the gallows.
Thomas' father died in a jet fighter crash a couple of decades ago, when Derrick was only a few years old.