How to Use deprived in a Sentence

deprived

adjective

• The diet allows you to eat small amounts of your favorite foods, so you won't feel deprived.
• The deprived rats were thin and had enlarged adrenal glands, but that was about it.
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 June 2020
• Nearly 200 electric fans were dispatched to the deprived schools.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019
• As blood is pumped back into deprived tissues, those cells are more likely to die.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2019
• Or the coach who took a flat, confidence-deprived unit and made it into the best defense IU football has seen in at least two decades?
  — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 22 May 2018
• As one of the few leagues to continue playing with relative normalcy over the past year, the NBA has been a boon to deprived sports fans.
  — Horacio Silva, Robb Report, 24 Apr. 2021
• That of course implies that those without it remain deprived of such simple pleasures from pre-Covid life.
  — Peter Baldwin, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
• Teenagers from deprived areas are bringing bottles of acid to school as a form of self-defense, according to the London Times.
  — Tara John, Time, 14 July 2017
• Residents of the most deprived communities in England and Wales have died from the disease at more than twice the rate of those who live in the wealthiest.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 5 May 2020
• The key to keeping your commitment to eating vegan is to not feel deprived.
  — Cathy Garrard, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2021
• Were Hungary deprived of voting rights, the PPE would lose its plurality of seats in the assembly.
  — Monika Nalepa, Washington Post, 10 July 2018
• His plan is to lie low and not attract attention, but that's easier said than done when his deprived students beg him to teach them how to fence.
  — Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• Conditions at the school were often brutal; staff deprived boys of meals, forced them to do manual labor and abused them.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017
• Conditions at the school were often brutal; staff deprived boys of meals, forced them to do manual labor and abused them.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017
• One study in a very deprived area of Dundee, Scotland looked at how the amount of green space in a neighborhood might affect the levels of stress in residents of that neighborhood.
  — Shane O'Mara, Outside Online, 13 May 2020
• The law was poorly written, and led to a proliferation of H.M.O.s that failed to cut costs and deprived people of care, putting many off the idea of capitation.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
• As long as persons in any part of the world remain deprived of their fundamental rights and freedom, we are all diminished.
  — Chito Gascon, Time, 30 May 2018
• The subjects here felt more balanced and less deprived, which kept them going longer on a restricted calorie diet.
  — Aarti Sanan, Redbook, 28 Feb. 2012
• Before the financial crash of 2008, the unemployment rate was lower in these wards than in other deprived places.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• And compared to the good old days when the boys were together nearly 24/7, Directioners feel more deprived than ever.
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 17 Oct. 2017
• In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2019
• Now growing demand for metals from ethical sources could spark a revival in one of Britain's most deprived regions.
  — Lauren Kent and Nina Dos Santos, CNN, 13 Sep. 2019
• Meyer and his coauthors conclude that this suggests food stamps are doing a good job of targeting the most deprived Americans.
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 5 June 2019
• Children from disadvantaged backgrounds were likely to be even further behind, as are children in more deprived parts of the North of England and the Midlands.
  — Nick Morrison, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
• As the numbers of Palestinian dead and injured mounted in Gaza, the already-deprived healthcare sector sagged under the weight of the casualties.
  — Tareq Baconi, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2019
• Left-behind places are less diverse, with a much greater proportion of white residents than other deprived areas and England as a whole.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• For low-income families living in deprived parts of Houston and other cities, that’s easier said than done.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2017
• In London, the attacks are heavily concentrated in the east of the city, where young professionals and the deprived live cheek by jowl as patches of the area rapidly gentrify.
  — CNN, 29 Sep. 2017
• Vardi's vast experience has taught her that the first to suffer from anti-democratic acts are those at the bottom of the Israeli food chain: Arabs, refugees, patients from deprived backgrounds.
  — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
• Instead of college scholarships and pre-Olympic programs, the big talents have, more often than not, been drawn from society’s most deprived, where trauma and lack of opportunity bake in a capacity to persist through pain.
  — Ben Wyatt, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024