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
For what it’s worth, in the 1960s, a tobacco executive took a similar position before Congress, saying: “millions of persons throughout the world derive pleasure and enjoyment from smoking.”
From The Verge • Oct. 28, 2021
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
Lord Jeffrey, one of the keenest of critics, says that the term may properly be applied to "every metrical composition from which we derive pleasure without any laborious exercise of the understanding."
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10 Poetical Quotations by Carman, Bliss
