Sentence examples for from which it derived from inspiring English sources

2 For lying as the city did between two rivers, the Crathis and the Sybaris, from which it derived its name, its inhabitants, who tilled an extensive and fruitful countryside, came to possess great riches.

The material was first made in the city of Mosul (now in Iraq), from which it derived its name.

Rapid City, city, seat (1877) of Pennington county, western South Dakota, U.S. It lies at the eastern edge of the Black Hills on Rapid Creek, from which it derived its name.

Bacillussafensis was first identified in 2006 as a contaminant from spacecraft-assembly facilities (SAF) in USA from which it derived its specific epithet safensis [25].

William Daniell sketched the sea stack at this time as a wider column with a smaller top section and an arch at the base, from which it derived its name.

The Gresley 3-cylinder drive arrangement continued to bring a number of practical problems, the root of which was probably the need for the inside cylinder to be steeply inclined in order to give space for the inside connecting rod to clear the leading coupled axle; at the same time, the inside valve spindle had to be parallel with the outside ones from which it derived its motion.

Typically measuring 1.2 1.5 m (3.9 4.9 ft) long, this slender-bodied shark is immediately identifiable by the striking pattern of black saddle-like markings and large spots over its back, from which it derives its common name.

Monte dei Paschi di Siena's claim to be the world's oldest surviving bank dates to its origins in 1472 in the Tuscan city from which it derives its name.

It has distinctive black bars on its forelegs and a black-tipped, stubby tail, from which it derives its name.

The only thing that doesn't quite work about "Secret" is the conceit from which it derives its title.

The species was first described from specimens captured near the Galapagos Islands, from which it derives its name.