Example Sentences

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Even before the full interview came out, a top Facebook executive was deriding the whistleblower’s allegations as “misleading.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2021

But while I was enjoying again his 1958 book “Have Space Suit-Will Travel,” I noticed he was deriding a controversial approach to schooling I have come to admire.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2020

Dershowitz wrote a letter to the editor complaining that Ephron was deriding his work in order to help get a friend’s book about the same case published.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 29, 2019

At one point, General Motors was deriding wild drivers in traffic-safety pamphlets and simultaneously proclaiming, in motor-magazine ads, that owning a Buick Skylark Gran Sport "is almost like having your own personal-type nuclear deterrent."

From Time Magazine Archive

How I blessed those stolid, flannelled figures, for in a few minutes his face had settled back into repose, the colour had returned, and he was deriding the Surrey bowling in healthy irritation.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier