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Example sentences for "derive"

Lexicographically close words:
derivation; derivations; derivative; derivatively; derivatives; derived; derives; deriving; derk; derke
  1. Whoever possesses strongly this sense comes naturally to think that the smallest details of this world derive infinite significance from their relation to an unseen divine order.

  2. Bucke, "it had not occurred to me that any one could derive so much absolute happiness from these things as he did.

  3. But no fencer who reads the work attentively can fail to derive from it a real profit, and, I hope, a real pleasure.

  4. If on the other hand he happens to have some smattering of knowledge he will appreciate more fully and derive all the more benefit from the lesson thus reduced to its simplest expression.

  5. Nor has it been proved that the nervous influence is affected in such a way as directly to impair the innervation of the organic functions, which derive their chief impulse to action from the scattered ganglia of the sympathetic system.

  6. So bewitched is Mr. Wedgwood with this word balk, that he prefers to derive the Ital.

  7. What relief under such circumstances could she derive from a victory without a prize?

  8. What pleasure can they derive from contemplating the exposed condition, and almost certain beggary of their younger offspring?

  9. The logic on which the hereditary prince rests is in effect this: I derive my power from my birth; I derive my birth from God; therefore I owe nothing to men.

  10. It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living.

  11. It was needless after this to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

  12. We are now allied with a formidable naval power, from whom we derive the assistance of a navy.

  13. Though the achievements of these days might give trophies to a nation and laurels to its heroes, they derive their full radiance of glory from the principle they inspired and the object they accomplished.

  14. There is perhaps no condition from which a man conscious of his own uprightness cannot derive consolation; for it is in itself a consolation for him to find, that he can bear that condition with calmness and fortitude.

  15. Incidentally, it is not a very successful type, and of course any success it may achieve as a work of art cannot derive from the truth or weight of the proposition or moral behind it.

  16. R] As stated, the writer of fiction will derive small benefit from conceiving novel and romance as entirely different types of fiction.

  17. Having paid all the people who had assisted in driving the asses, I found that the expense was greater than any benefit we were likely to derive from them.

  18. It could not have been easily anticipated that a soldier, brought up in a Scotch parish school, was likely, when enslaved by the Turks and a captive in Egypt, to derive much advantage from his education.

  19. They are elevated about 1,200 feet above the sea; and probably derive their name from a small waterfall which, after descending over their face, drops into the valley below.

  20. I posit difference as an essential category, as a truth, where I derive it from the original being, and vice versa: the two propositions are identical.

  21. Hence is explained why all attempts of speculative theology and of its kindred philosophy to make the transition from God to the world, or to derive the world from God, have failed and must fail.

  22. It is a self-delusion to attempt to derive monachism from the East.

  23. Speculate as much as you will, you will never derive your personality from God, if you have not beforehand introduced it, if God himself be not already the idea of your personality, your own subjective nature.

  24. If, on the contrary, I abide by reason, I can only derive the world from its essence, its idea, i.

  25. I am convinced that farmers generally are now fully alert to the benefits, both immediate and long-term, which they derive from the practices encouraged by this program.

  26. To derive all the advantages contemplated from these fortifications it was necessary that they should be judiciously posted, and constructed with a view to permanence.

  27. But as neither my own reflections nor the lights which I may properly derive from other sources have supplied me with a better, I shall continue to apply my best exertions to a faithful application of the rule upon which it is founded.

  28. By profiting of their science the works will always be well executed, and by giving to the officers such employment our Union will derive all the advantage, in peace as well as in war, from their talents and services which they can afford.

  29. To them it owes allegiance; from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.

  30. It is known to all that we derive them from the excellence of our institutions.

  31. It may be expected to derive new vigor from American influence, improved by the rapid disappearance of slavery in the United States.

  32. But you nevertheless can not fail to derive satisfaction from the confirmation of these circumstances which will be disclosed in the several official communications that will be made to you in the course of your deliberations.

  33. For these blessings we owe to Almighty God, from whom we derive them, and with profound reverence, our most grateful and unceasing acknowledgments.

  34. He would derive the name from the Semitic, or at all events the Cilician language.

  35. Timotheus, who professed to derive it from recondite antiquarian works and from the very heart of the mysteries.

  36. M45) At the same time, in justice to the writers whose views I have criticized, I wish to point out that the practice from which they propose to derive the sacred prostitution of Western Asia has not always been purely secular in character.

  37. The usual rendering of kedeshim in the English Bible is not justified by any of these passages; but it may perhaps derive support from a reference which Eusebius makes to the profligate rites observed at Aphaca (Vita Constantini, iii.

  38. But if we believe that the earth-spirits cannot excuse man on account of the object he pursues, and detest him for annoying them by disturbing the ground, what advantage then can he derive from selecting proper days for doing so?

  39. It is not, however, from wilful mistakes, or from deliberate ignorance, that we ever derive profit.

  40. I am sure you will derive pleasure from having shown him that your friendship could only end by his death.

  41. Or we keep the precepts, because of the utility that we derive from the recompense, thus resembling Mercenaries.

  42. We can speak of simple things only as though they were like the composite things from which we derive our knowledge.

  43. Further, every nature possesses but one mode of self-communication; because operations derive unity and diversity from their terms.

  44. So the other persons derive their unity from the Father.

  45. But since the angels are forms, they do not derive their form from any agent.

  46. For adjectival words derive their number from the supposita but substantives from themselves, according to the form signified.

  47. Nor does vision through a mirror belong to the angels, since they do not derive their knowledge of God from sensible things, as Dionysius observes (Div.

  48. Man must therefore derive his species from that which is the principle of this operation.

  49. Thus the orders which derive their name from presiding are not the first and highest; but rather the orders deriving their name from their nearness and relation to God.

  50. The Pandavs, having besought the aid of the monkeys, were informed they would derive great benefit by bearing a monkey banner, so it was armed with this standard that they marched on to victory.

  51. Children derive more genuine enjoyment and profit from a good book than most grown people are susceptible of: they see what is described, and themselves enact and perfect the characters of the story as it goes along.

  52. St. Auban would hear of my removal, and I cared not to think of what profit he might derive from it.

  53. Mancini, your friend--a friendship easily understood from the advantages you must derive from it--that I consent to endure your presence and the insult of your glance?

  54. I am aware, sir, what eclat young gentlemen nowadays derive from the supposed preference of individuals of exalted rank; and I hope that your vanity may be most in fault here.

  55. The name mammoth, which is probably of Tartar origin, Witsen appears to wish to derive from Behemoth, spoken of in the fortieth chapter of the Book of Job.

  56. It was from Pagan Rome that European nations derive the wedding-ring, as they were used in their betrothals long before there is any trace of them elsewhere.

  57. Reference is made to the ruff, which is too well known to need description; to bandes made of linen and cambric, from which those now used by the clergy took their origin, and from which we derive the modern word bandbox.

  58. The enjoyment you derive from a game depends on the spirit with which you play it.

  59. And so, while it may be human nature to be ever on the lookout for "something for nothing," it is quite as human to derive very much additional enjoyment from the things for which one pays.

  60. Canting, preaching with a whining affected tone, perhaps a corruption of chaunting; some derive it from Andrew Cant, a famous Scotch preacher, who used that whining manner of expression.

  61. From this custom, it is said, the Indians derive the neatness and exactness of their limbs, which are the most perfect in the world.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "derive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accept; acquire; admit; arouse; assume; bag; base; capture; catch; collect; conclude; contract; corral; deduce; deduct; derive; draw; earn; educe; elicit; emerge; ensue; evoke; extract; fetch; find; gain; gather; get; glean; harvest; have; induce; infer; judge; make; mine; net; obtain; originate; procure; reap; reason; receive; rouse; sack; score; secure; spin; stem; stimulate; summon; take; win


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    derive from; derived from; derives its name from