derive pleasure
Example Sentences
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Perhaps because the multitudes derive pleasure from observing wealthy people getting dragged through the mud.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026
There's a condition called anhedonia, which is where you really just can't derive pleasure from life.
From Salon • Jun. 12, 2022
I derive pleasure from suspending disbelief, imagining the characters I interact with as alive, their words and deeds organic and authentic, not a series of 1s and 0s strung together by someone else.
From The Verge • Jan. 11, 2022
They are trying to derive pleasure and comfort from time spent with friends and family and their shared experiences.
From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2021
Oh, Dick, my son, if you have not imagination enough to translate these pictures of the evening sky into glimpses of fairy land, and to derive pleasure therefrom, I pity you from my very soul.”
From Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess by Hodgson, Edward S.
