How to Use deprive in a Sentence

deprive

verb
  • But none of this deprives the woman of the right to do so.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 12 June 2024
  • Edtech won't be the one that deprives people of that; quite the contrary.
    Oleksandr Mykolaienko, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • And to deprive her of that in latex would have been a mistake.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
  • And yet the seller had chosen to deprive him of this one small piece of his home.
    Joshua Hunt, Curbed, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Why deprive him of the most treasured of all pitchers’ dreams?
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2022
  • At the very least, this could be used to deprive Ukraine of valuable transit fees.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Some workers and labor groups say the law deprives them of such rights as sick leave.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The plan to deprive the Kremlin of a key source of revenue will have to be approved by the bloc's 27 member states.
    NBC News, 4 May 2022
  • The abuser may deprive you of a phone or car, or try to prevent you from holding a job.
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 9 July 2021
  • The fall of Mariupol would deprive Ukraine of a vital port.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 May 2022
  • This was the latest attempt to deprive the Igbo of resources on their land.
    Wired, 1 Sep. 2021
  • This is when a blood clot travels to the brain and interrupts blood flow and deprives the brain of oxygen.
    Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 31 Aug. 2023
  • And who in their right mind would want to deprive these hardworking people of that?
    Claudia Eller, Variety, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The decision to deprive him of his writing tools can be a step to further isolate him.
    Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Foods that nourish rather than deprive the body are needed now more than ever.
    Anna Haines, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • Disney then passed measures to deprive the new board of its power for decades.
    Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 11 June 2023
  • Saddam Hussein had deprived the Shiites of what was something of a holy land to them.
    Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Some in the city’s art scene feared that in closing the collection, Carlos had deprived the city of a crucial part of its ecosystem.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 15 Oct. 2024
  • That decision deprived Williams of his right to due process, his lawyers argued.
    Cindy Von Quednow, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Did the officers deprive George Floyd of his civil rights?
    Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2022
  • That can deprive the baby of nutrition and stunt its growth inside the womb, Hobel said.
    Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Maybe that's why Shane seems so upset, though; by dying, Armond would deprive him of the chance to get someone fired.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • At the same time, the brain sends a signal to send less blood to the kidneys to stop losing liquid through urine, which deprives the kidneys of oxygen.
    Annie Gowen, Niko Kommenda and Saiyna Bashir, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The Biden-Harris administration wants to deprive you of the right to live out your conscience and obey your God.
    Sean Spicer, National Review, 22 Oct. 2021
  • One of the most effective ways to prevent criticism of an idea is to deprive people of the language in which to name it.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Doe’s suit, filed in 2021, alleged that the singer, whose real name is Brian Warner, raped her and deprived her of food, sleep, and a sense of safety.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The cut trees also, Lawson said, deprive Lake Maumelle of a natural filter of the drinking source in that area.
    William Sanders, Arkansas Online, 23 July 2021
  • In depleting the Su-34 fleet, and fast, the Ukrainians deprive the Russians of their best precision bomber.
    David Axe, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • This failure rendered Black voters unable to vote in a many places, depriving the GOP of support from the party's most loyal constituency.
    Luke Voyles / Made By History, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The Democratic senator from Massachusetts did not wait long to draw policy lessons from the heinous assassination that widowed Thompson’s spouse and deprived his two sons of a father.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 14 Dec. 2024

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