derriere

Example Sentences

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It’s the least visible part of my body, yet I’ve had good reason lately to obsess about my gluteus maximus, my derrière, my whole imperfect situation back there.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2026

Which is how they find themselves stumbling off the twice-weekly bus to the derrière of nowhere, squinting at a dirt track that only seems to lead to more dirt.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023

Indeed, he might well come to the conclusion that it is the only way to keep his derrière out of jail.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 15, 2018

The actual scene in the warehouse was good: nice and tense and Michonne almost got her derrière handed to her.

From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2017

Les Turcs de derrière les travers et les flancs des bastions voisins fasaient sur elle un feu très-vif de canon et de mousqueterie.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley