derive

In a sentence

Six example sentences with derive, each labelled with its topic.

• Real balsamic derives its sweetness from grape must boiled down for years, not from any sugar added at bottling.

  Cooking

• The film's main theme derives from a Breton lullaby the composer heard once as a child on holiday.

  Music

• Norway derives roughly a fifth of state income from offshore oil, which is why the fund exists to outlast the wells.

  Economics

• The fund derives most of its income from dividends, so a bank's cut hits the payout at once.

  Finance

• Hobbes derived the state's authority from a contract among its citizens, not from any decree of heaven.

  Philosophy

• The chapel derives its proportions from the golden ratio, which the architect marked out on every plan.

  Architecture

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