But, sir, considering some peculiar advantages which we derive from them, it is entirely JUST that they should be gratified.
I have nothing, absolutely nothing, but what I derive from you, and for this reason I cannot confer even the smallest advantage on one except at the expense of another.
Have they not diverted capital from its legitimate employment, seeking to derive from it, not enjoyment, but destruction?
Hundreds of millions of vegetable germs fall every year upon the ground, derive from it a beginning of vitality, and then die stifled by plants stronger, ranker, hardier than themselves.
Let us compare our own individual vigour and knowledge with the vigour and knowledge necessary to produce the innumerable satisfactions which we derive from society.
We derive from nature no fault that may not= 25 =become a virtue, no virtue that may not degenerate into a fault.
The best thing which we derive from history= 5 =is the enthusiasm which it raises in us.
I believe I mentioned to you in my last the great improvement which these last few days have made in the King's situation, and the strong hope which we derive from it.
But the impression may be very bad on their minds, if we appear to be narrowing the benefits which they are to derive from exertion, instead of animating them by the hope of increased advantage.
I am reading Daru's "History of Venice," and am rather disappointed in the entertainment I expected to derive from it.
My father's property, and all that we might ever have hoped to derive from it, being utterly destroyed in the unfortunate issue of our affairs, his personal exertions are all that remain to him and us to look to.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "derive from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
