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
• Aid groups have said stopping the war is ultimately the only way to help ease the privation in Gaza.
  — Anushka Patil, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Life, fertility, and abundance—even amid the privations of the dry season.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2024
• The Israeli operation to capture it has turned it into a place of privation and fear.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• 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
• More than a study of the impact of those stores, Connecticut could use a study of what pushed Hartford and its other cities from prosperity to privation.
  — Chris Powell, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
• 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
• The privations are often treated with the nation’s trademark humor.
  — David McKenzie, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024