Examples of deprivation in a Sentence
She is studying the effects of sleep deprivation.
She eventually overcame the deprivations of her childhood.
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Midway through the film, an I.E.D. explodes just outside the apartment building, and the sequence that follows, in which the survivors gradually regain consciousness, is a tour de force of sensory deprivation and temporal dislocation.
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
While some hardship builds character, suffering extreme deprivation does not guarantee success.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
What has happened is that people from the five countries listed above have been left in a state of legal limbo in Greece, without a secure status and often living in conditions of extreme deprivation.
—Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Writing in the early twentieth century, the sociologist Max Weber saw bureaucracy as dehumanizing, a coldly rational deprivation of human freedom.
—Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
While some hardship builds character, suffering extreme deprivation does not guarantee success.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
What has happened is that people from the five countries listed above have been left in a state of legal limbo in Greece, without a secure status and often living in conditions of extreme deprivation.
—Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Writing in the early twentieth century, the sociologist Max Weber saw bureaucracy as dehumanizing, a coldly rational deprivation of human freedom.
—Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for deprivation
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“Deprivation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deprivation. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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deprivation
noun
de·pri·va·tion
ˌdep-rə-ˈvā-shən 
ˌdē-ˌprī-
ˌdē-ˌprī-
: the act or process of removing or the condition resulting from removal of something normally present and usually essential for mental or physical well-being
his nervous system may have been affected by early oxygen deprivation—Jack Fincher
Jack Finchersleep deprivation
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