How to Use deprivation in a Sentence

deprivation

noun

• She is studying the effects of sleep deprivation.
• She eventually overcame the deprivations of her childhood.
• As a parent, the sleep deprivation can start to wear on you.
  — Jeffrey Van Camp, Wired, 25 Aug. 2021
• Many of the migrants in Reynosa have fled violence, deprivation and threats to their lives.
  — New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021
• This very deprivation made Southside an appealing spot for a casino.
  — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
• Thoreau’s goal was to calculate the specific cost of eliminating deprivation from his life.
  — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
• Can the rights of one community depend, in perpetuity, on the deprivation of rights in another?
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• Though torture was technically forbidden under English law, this was not; nor was sleep deprivation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2021
• Instead of a site of deprivation and punishment for unwanted women, Marie creates a virtual island, a fortress utopia.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2021
• As people have taken pains to socially distance, many have discovered the sense of deprivation that can accompany the lack of affectionate touch.
  — Kory Floyd, The Conversation, 16 Aug. 2021
• There’s also a fair amount of whiplash as readers get pulled from the deprivation of the 1940s into the blazing sunlight of privileged Riviera life.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2021
• If convicted of deprivation of rights, the men could face up to life in prison on those two counts alone.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2023
• But the way that there's been mass arrests, there's been a real deprivation of due process, like that's got to end.
  — Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2024
• Months of deprivation had sapped people’s wills to fight on.
  — Ivan Nechepurenko Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• There is a reason sleep deprivation is used as a form of torture, and why lists of the best sleep apps exist.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 14 Jan. 2022
• Hayes watched in awe as his children — three sons and three daughters, ages 7 to 17 — didn't seem to notice the deprivations.
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2023
• Themes are established: the promise of death, and sleep deprivation, the latter of which comes up a lot.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 June 2022
• The researchers rounded out the study with a third group of 10 students: those who would be subject to one night of sleep deprivation.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
• There’s more spring training rust and sleep deprivation to shake.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
• The Magic are among the few NBA teams equipped with a sensory-deprivation pod that helps heal a player’s mind and body.
  — Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022
• Sleep deprivation leads to brain stress, and ample sleep is restorative for your brain health.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• Bias pleaded guilty in March to one count of deprivation of rights under color of law.
  — Jenny Gathright, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
• Nighttime fears can lead to sleep deprivation, of course.
  — Daryl Austin, Parents, 26 Jan. 2024
• Like the sleep deprivation is crazy, decisions are hard to make.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 8 Nov. 2021
• Chill out in a sensory-deprivation float tank at Float Factor to slow your heart rate a bit.
  — Kathryn Romeyn, Men's Health, 30 Nov. 2022
• All of them were – were certainly living in a state of deprivation for many, many months.
  — CBS News, 1 Sep. 2024
• Here is a tale about deprivation which stomps on the delicate vessel of the trauma plot.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
• In the study, sleep deprivation is defined as getting less than seven hours of sleep per night.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 16 Sep. 2024
• Sleep deprivation led to endocarditis, a rare and life-threatening infection of the heart’s inner lining.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
• Sleep deprivation also leads to cognitive and metabolic impairments.
  — Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024