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.
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The deprived rats were thin and had enlarged adrenal glands, but that was about it.
—Quanta Magazine, 4 June 2020
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Nearly 200 electric fans were dispatched to the deprived schools.
—Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019
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As blood is pumped back into deprived tissues, those cells are more likely to die.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2019
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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
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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
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That of course implies that those without it remain deprived of such simple pleasures from pre-Covid life.
—Peter Baldwin, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
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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
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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
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The key to keeping your commitment to eating vegan is to not feel deprived.
—Cathy Garrard, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2021
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Were Hungary deprived of voting rights, the PPE would lose its plurality of seats in the assembly.
—Monika Nalepa, Washington Post, 10 July 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Before the financial crash of 2008, the unemployment rate was lower in these wards than in other deprived places.
—The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
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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
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In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship.
—BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Those missing out on those opportunities are often the most deprived people.
—Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2023
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The gap in the likelihood of getting a place at a more selective university between a student from a deprived background and their more affluent classmate is at the highest level ever recorded, according to figures released just last week.
—Nick Morrison, Forbes, 17 July 2023
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