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Deprivation
"Deprivation" in a Sentence (15 examples)
The war ushered in a period of shortages and deprivation.
Sleep deprivation increases risk of heart attacks.
Material wealth often goes hand in hand with social deprivation.
If one is suffering from sleep deprivation, one's attention can slip.
Since Tom arrived at Guantanamo Bay he has been exposed to different forms of torture: sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, extreme temperatures, prolonged isolation, lack of sunlight and limited health care.
Is modern society suffering from sleep deprivation?
In the US, poverty, deprivation and exploitation draws thousands of its own children down into a dark underworld that offers few ways out.
I sincerely hope that occasional sleep deprivation doesn't cause permanent damage to my brain.
She died of oxygen deprivation.
He grew up poor, so he's used to deprivation.
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Without doubt, respondent [Darrell E.] Burch alleges a serious deprivation of liberty; yet equally clearly he alleges no violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. […] Taken together, the decisions indicate that for deprivations worked by such random and unauthorized departures from otherwise unimpugned and established state procedures the State provides the process due by making available adequate postdeprivation remedies.
A Roman, elected in 896 by the Roman faction in a popular tumult, to succeed Formosus. He had twice incurred a sentence of deprivation of orders, as a subdeacon and as a priest.
He was suffering from deprivation of sleep.
The deprivation of anything whose possession is consistent with the nature of the Being which wants it, is a defect. But ignorance is a deprivation of something which is consistent with the nature of intelligence: it is a deprivation of knowledge.
Outside the boundaries of the PTEs [Passenger Transport Executives], there was little mechanism to re-open routes, and despite a growing realisation that the lack of transport connectivity was a big contributor towards social deprivation and poor economic performance, there was little government policy recognition.
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