Example Sentences

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But “The Singing Word: 168 Years of Poetry from The Atlantic” is lovely, both as a collection and in the pleasure and enlightenment readers will derive from individual poems.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Some view the situation as a great equalizer, because no one will derive any sort of advantage from past experience.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2022

Inevitably, the board will take some actions that Facebook itself disagrees with, and from that tension the board will derive its legitimacy.

From The Verge • Sep. 29, 2020

“Cameroon will derive enormous economic, health and especially environmental benefits if renewable energy efforts are spread throughout the country,” he said.

From Reuters • Dec. 5, 2016

It is his hope and belief that those who may come to know it will derive as much pleasure from its reading as it gave him to put it into English.

From The Norwegian Fairy Book by Stroebe, Clara