derbies

plural of derby

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for derbies
Noun
  • Photos and surveillance footage captured the moment Israeli soldiers in helmets and night vision goggles boarded the flotilla.
    Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Take the logos off the helmets, and the Commodores would probably be the favorites on paper.
    Manny Navarro, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Both of them wore their stocking caps pulled down beneath the hoods of their anoraks.
    Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In the first minutes, after the group of influencers, athletes, models, podcasters and actors are driven into the the desert in Morocco, their military manhandlers storm the bus and put black hoods over the heads, marching them into the unknown.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Derbies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/derbies. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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