DERISION in a Sentence
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37 example sentences for DERISION, such as:
1. His mind heard howls of derision.
2. There was a short, derisive laugh.
3. He became an object of universal derision.
4. She could not go on enduring the hidden derision.
5. Yet that brief derisive stare pierced her to her soul.
2. There was a short, derisive laugh.
3. He became an object of universal derision.
4. She could not go on enduring the hidden derision.
5. Yet that brief derisive stare pierced her to her soul.
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Meanings and Examples of DERISION
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derision
n. the act of deriding or treating with contempt
n. contemptuous laughter
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1 He had so completely ceased to consider how far this might carry him, that he had a distinct sense of disappointment when she turned on him a face sparkling with derision.
2 She paused, and again sounded a faint note of derision.
3 Her sense of irony never quite deserted her, and she could still note, with self-directed derision, the abnormal value suddenly acquired by the most tiresome and insignificant details of her former life.
4 She could not go on enduring the hidden derision.
5 Nina interpreted the stories about the creche fancifully, and in spite of our derision she cherished a belief that Christ was born in Bohemia a short time before the Shimerdas left that country.
6 His mind heard howls of derision.
7 It would now be he who could laugh and shoot the shafts of derision.
8 They were therefore in universal use among Prince John's courtiers; and the long mantle, which formed the upper garment of the Saxons, was held in proportional derision.
9 Answer me not," said the Templar, "by urging the difference of our creeds; within our secret conclaves we hold these nursery tales in derision.
10 De Bracy bowed low and in silence, and was about to withdraw, when the yeomen burst at once into a shout of execration and derision.
11 And his plain, rather worn face took on an indefinable look of derision.
12 Diggory withdrew with an emphatic step, Wildeve's eye passing over his form in withering derision, as if he were no more than a heath-cropper.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
13 I'll be bitterly merry, and ironically gay, and I'll laugh in derision.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
14 At one end of the corridor we were all marshalled by Sherlock Holmes, the constables grinning and Lestrade staring at my friend with amazement, expectation, and derision chasing each other across his features.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
Context Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
15 She looked at his two sisters, and saw them making signs of derision at each other, and at Darcy, who continued, however, imperturbably grave.
Example Sentence:
1 He became an object of universal derision.
2 There was a short, derisive laugh.
3 Yet that brief derisive stare pierced her to her soul.