Sentence examples for a derivation of from inspiring English sources

The name Taj Mahal is a derivation of her name.

As several commenters have pointed out, the name is a derivation of Roald Dahl's book George's Marvellous Medicine.

"There is not a word he doesn't know a derivation of.

At some point, I had to give him a name and the one I chose is a derivation of the word for "humanity".

Many of her earliest stories are set in a fictional middle European country she called Orsinia, like her own name a derivation of the Latin for bear.

It was the habanera, used by Bizet in "Carmen" and a derivation of which we learned to dance to as the tango.

Meaning to drink alcohol heartily, it is a derivation of its well-behaved older sister "beverage", a word whose rectitude is beloved of licensing committees everywhere.

Stigma is a derivation of the Greek word for tattoo and is described as "a mark of disgrace or infamy, a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation".

For that peculiar pretzeled somersault, a hallmark of Naoya's performance, is a derivation of Japan's most famous gymnastic stunt, the "moon" somersault.

Mr. Cuomo's traveling act, a derivation of his State of the State address, has left that open to interpretation.

"Barbouze" is a derivation of the French word for beard, barbe, and designates secret agents who operate behind false whiskers.