How to Use deprive in a Sentence

deprive

verb

• This was the latest attempt to deprive the Igbo of resources on their land.
  — Wired, 1 Sep. 2021
• 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
• By ruling for the city, the jury determined that the city’s opioid problem was depriving residents of their right to public health and safety.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 12 Nov. 2024
• Republicans in state legislatures all across the country are slowly gaming the system to deprive voters of their power.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2021
• Instead, Tribe said, Garland has the power to take legal action against those who seek to deprive someone of their constitutional rights.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• County officials are urging residents to take steps to deprive mosquitoes of water, which is needed for every stage of the mosquito breeding process.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 4 Oct. 2021
• The first count said the officer deprived Taylor and her boyfriend of their constitutional rights by firing shots through a bedroom window that was covered with blinds and a blackout curtain.
  — CBS News, 1 Nov. 2024
• Gig platforms, some of them vastly unprofitable and with shaky stock prices, are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to change the law in their favor, to deprive the bulk of their workforce from the rights to which they should be entitled.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2021
• 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 fall of Mariupol would deprive Ukraine of a vital port.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024