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.
• Your daughter’s sense of deprivation has probably caused her many tearful nights as well.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 26 Oct. 2021
• 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
• Some people seek out the feeling of weightlessness in a sensory deprivation tank.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• However, even short-term sleep deprivation can become serious if sleepiness while awake poses a safety risk.
  — Daniel Combs, Verywell Health, 3 Oct. 2024
• Sleep deprivation may also play a role in destabilizing people's moods, adds Dr. Potash.
  — Ashley Abramson, Health.com, 1 Nov. 2021
• Observational studies have shown that water deprivation can be a trigger for migraine.
  — Lisa Bain, Good Housekeeping, 29 Oct. 2021
• What is clear is that providing people with money helps them to meet important needs in critical times and avoids further dis-empowerment that comes with deprivation.
  — Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 16 Oct. 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
• 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
• Strict deprivation, on the other hand, leads only to despair and binges.
  — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2023
• Then, during weeks of stress and deprivation, some began to die.
  — Fox News, 13 Apr. 2022
• 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
• The characters, under the direction of an unseen doctor, eat nothing, the deprivation offering relief from their chronic illnesses and laying conversation bare.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024