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
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
"The Outsider" isn't the only current television series or movie that is toying with this idea of malignant entities that target children and then derive pleasure or sustenance from the surrounding communities' ensuing sorrow.
From Salon • Feb. 11, 2020
We have outlived the shock, and can even derive pleasure from the spectacle, of our elders joyously cavorting between the tables when we ask them out to dine; other times, other manners.
From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various
