How to Use privation in a Sentence

privation

noun

• The country has suffered through long periods of economic privation.
• For Ukrainian cities, the initial days of privation will be the worst.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
• The Southern way with gravies was born of privation. . . .
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 22 July 2019
• But amid that boom, the steel industry felt the privations of war.
  — Time, 26 July 2017
• The pinch of privation is reflected more by the buildings that aren’t there.
  — Austin Murphy, SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• The privation, stress, and death that war inflicts cannot be blamed solely on outsiders.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Feb. 2022
• At a time of great privation and upheaval, both the existential and the trivial emerge.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 23 Feb. 2021
• Weakened by months of self-privation, his heart had slowed to a crawl and his kidneys were faltering.
  — John Leicester, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2021
• And some of you suffer from privation or loneliness or ill health, and your hearts ache within you.
  — Columbia Flier, 12 Dec. 2017
• Drag privation out long enough, and scurvy’s victims are stripped of their ability to learn and feel and remember.
  — Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2021
• After the privations of the Second World War, the country joined a continent-wide push to banish hunger from Europe.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
• Having known privation while growing up during the Depression and in his early days as a ski bum, Mr. Miller was no snob.
  — Matt Higgins, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
• It’s been 13 months since islandwide protests, sparked by extreme privation, filled the streets with calls for liberty.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022
• That said, veteran skywatchers hold that the Geminids are worth the privation at a time when the moon will be taking a pre-Christmas break.
  — al, 13 Dec. 2020
• But like the Obama Administration, Team Biden fails to acknowledge that the cause of the island’s privation is the regime itself.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 May 2022
• But the other options are military strikes, or years (decades?) more of privation for millions of innocents in NK.
  — Tessa Berenson, Time, 9 Mar. 2018
• This time, Less’ travels are restricted to the United States, with Arthur making a mad cross-country dash as privation chases his heels.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
• In a country ravaged by years of privation and death, the Winstons’ brief tenure — fueled by black-market food and liquor — was distasteful.
  — Sadie Stein, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
• The world gets an occasional glimpse of this privation when uprisings break out against the regime—followed by the usual arrests and trials.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
• Popular discontent had grown throughout the Tsar’s reign and increased sharply under the privations imposed by the war.
  — Terry Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2017
• Economic privation does not explain why so many working-class whites chose Mr Trump.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• There is nothing evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that the privation of life is no evil: To know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 18 May 2021
• Ms Lightfoot, who grew up poor in Ohio, speaks personally about privation.
  — The Economist, 5 Mar. 2020
• Mr. Ryan has long championed new policies to lift poor Americans out of privation.
  — Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2016
• There were obstacles and privations for white immigrants but every step was upward; care and concern could be found.
  — Martin Luther King Jr., The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2018
• Mazloumian died shortly afterward, his health having given out amid the danger and privation of the war.
  — Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• Here, where both land and life are flat, the privations of rural teenage existence yield wild and elemental bewitchments.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2017
• Her explosive and enraged character owed a lot to a life filled with privations, which was prolonged by having children.
  — Longreads, 21 June 2017
• The double debt helped set off a cascade of privation, budgetary shortfalls and onerous foreign loans that shaped the country into the 20th century and beyond.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2022
• The brother talked openly, even obsessively, about the privations of his childhood and the deformation of body and mind that was the result of having had to conceal his true nature.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024