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.
  • As a parent, the sleep deprivation can start to wear on you.
    Jeffrey Van Camp, Wired, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Hip-hop is the rose that grew from the concrete of poverty and deprivation in the inner city.
    Marcus Thompson Ii, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Jaynes and Meany still face a charge of deprivation of rights under the color of law.
    Melissa Chan, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Many of the migrants in Reynosa have fled violence, deprivation and threats to their lives.
    New York Times, 25 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • And one of the biggest predictors of that is poverty and deprivation.
    Abc News, ABC News, 31 July 2024
  • The couple was struggling before the Taliban’s Aug. 15 takeover, but a new level of deprivation has swallowed them in the past few months.
    Saeed Shah, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
  • This can be caused by diseases like scurvy, smallpox, and nutritional deprivation.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024

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