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.
• Then, during weeks of stress and deprivation, some began to die.
  — Fox News, 13 Apr. 2022
• All of them were – were certainly living in a state of deprivation for many, many months.
  — CBS News, 1 Sep. 2024
• The oxygen deprivation was supposed to simulate the late rounds of a championship bout.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2022
• Studies have found that springing forward takes a toll on the body and can lead to higher incidences of heart attacks, strokes and sleep deprivation.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Mar. 2022
• Unlike most of us, weakened by months of hunger and deprivation, Steven, an experienced sportsman, was strong and big.
  — Marc Marginedas, TIME, 2 Sep. 2024
• Aside from avoiding the nuisance — and sleep deprivation — of changing clocks twice a year, the effort could give the economy a boost, lawmakers say.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2022
• His combat training, which included food and sleep deprivation, had its own damaging effects.
  — cleveland, 18 Apr. 2022
• And chronic sleep deprivation can lead to a weakened immune system and increase your risk of developing depression.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2022
• Similarly, root loss (such as from infection, injury, or oxygen deprivation) can cause the death of cambium in branches, resulting in dieback.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2022
• During the Thursday donor conference, no one disputed the sorrow and deprivation being endured by Afghans.
  — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Here is a tale about deprivation which stomps on the delicate vessel of the trauma plot.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
• Strict deprivation, on the other hand, leads only to despair and binges.
  — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2023
• Shaw then pleaded guilty to two counts of deprivation of rights under color of law as part of a plea agreement.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2023
• Until recently, the record holder for sleep deprivation was the African elephant, some of which can get by with about two hours of sleep a day.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
• And one of the biggest predictors of that is poverty and deprivation.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 31 July 2024
• The jury deadlocked on the charge of deprivation of civil rights under color of law.
  — Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Dec. 2022
• Sleep deprivation can trigger a seizure in people who have epilepsy.
  — Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024