Sentence for derision | Use derision in a sentence

Derision example sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use derision in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for derision.

• Derision instructs her. (10)
• Jeff gave a snort of derision. (9)
• Penelope laughed in a pitying derision. (9)
• Song in defeat was a hiss of derision to him. (10)
• But derision is foiled by the play of the intellect. (10)
• The loutish derision passed her and rebounded on him. (10)
• I cannot say it is undeserving the scourge of derision. (10)
• Her disillusionment became of the sort which hears derision. (10)
• His first sentence brought a grunt of derision from Ugo Corte. (10)
• The idea of his being a puppet fixed for derision was madly distempering. (10)
• Have we not heard derision infinite When old men play the youth to chase the snare? (10)
• His end was a derision because the animal in him ran him unchained and bounding to it. (10)
• She sank; she snatched at colours; they were peel Of fruit past savour, in derision rosed. (10)
• The melancholy position of the senior and junior Liberals was known abroad and matter of derision. (10)
• You touch her skirts when you share her hatred of the sham decent, her derision of sentimentalism. (10)
• As this only provoked new derision he would say no more, merely giving an obviously fictitious name. (1)
• Over the stone of the nearest grave Jeff had shown a face of triumphant derision when he pelted Westover with apples. (9)
• A certain eagerness of her own in speaking of it sharpened her clear features as if they were cutting through derision. (10)
• The little Canuck paused, as if uncertain whether he was made the object of unfriendly derision or not, and looked at Westover for help. (9)
• She looked at his two sisters, and saw them making signs of derision at each other, and at Darcy, who continued, however, imperturbably grave. (4)
• She called in the groom, whose derision of a great-coat for any gentleman upon Bertha, meaning work for the mare, appeased her remorsefulness. (10)
• Some strain of her breeding (the Carfax strain, no doubt) still heard such names and greeted such proclivities with an inclination to derision. (8)

Also see sentences for: contempt, detestation, disdain, ignominy, jeer, jeering, mockery.

Definition of derision:

• derision, de-rizh’un, n. act of deriding: mockery: a laughing-stock. | adjs. der’sive, ders’ory, mocking. | adv. der’sively. | n. der’siveness.(0)

Glad you visited this page with a sentence for derision. Now that you’ve seen how to use derision in a sentence hope you might explore the rest of this educational reference site Sentencefor.com to see many other example sentences which provide word usage information.