PRIVATION in a Sentence
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361 example sentences for PRIVATION, such as:
1. Cold is the privation of heat.
2. He knows not what I term privation.
3. In his youth, he knew hunger and privation.
4. The cost of private treatment can be prohibitive.
5. The President is paying a private visit to Europe.
2. He knows not what I term privation.
3. In his youth, he knew hunger and privation.
4. The cost of private treatment can be prohibitive.
5. The President is paying a private visit to Europe.
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Meanings and Examples of PRIVATION
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privation
n. act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
n. a state of extreme poverty
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The people of the town were suffering hardship, privation, sickness and death as severely as the rest of the Confederacy; but Atlanta, the city, had gained rather than lost as a result of the war.
2 It was January, midwinter, an awful time to have to face privation.
3 This, however, is not considered a very great privation.
4 I observed, upon that closer opportunity of observation, that she was worn and haggard, and that her sunken eyes expressed privation and endurance.
5 Hitherto each individual desire, aroused by suffering or privation, such as hunger, fatigue, thirst, had been satisfied by some bodily function giving pleasure.
6 And now without thinking about it he had found that peace and inner harmony only through the horror of death, through privation, and through what he recognized in Karataev.
7 As generally happens, Pierre did not feel the full effects of the physical privation and strain he had suffered as prisoner until after they were over.
8 And, withal, a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never a diversion.
9 No one knows all that certain feeble creatures, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can get out of a sou.
10 He knows not what I term privation.
11 They sat without a fire; but that was a privation familiar even to Fanny, and she suffered the less because reminded by it of the East room.
12 His need was to exist, and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk, and with a maximum of privation.
13 There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.
14 Here in London we have lots of Government detectives and lots of private ones.
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15 They are mostly sent on by private inquiry agencies.
Example Sentence: (151 in 11 pages)
1 It ought to be improved to the spiritual edification of the pupils, by encouraging them to evince fortitude under temporary privation.
2 In his youth, he knew hunger and privation.
3 They endured five years of privation during the second world war.
4 Cold is the privation of heat.
5 She accused them of leaking confidential information about her private life.
6 As her private secretary he has access to all her correspondence.
7 This does not necessarily imply that children achieve better results in private schools.
8 The cheques were delivered to the bank by a private courier firm.
9 The cost of private treatment can be prohibitive.
10 It's not the first time that the paper has been in trouble for printing untruths about people's private lives.
11 The government wants more people to use public transport instead of private cars.
12 The upper classes usually send their children to expensive private schools.
13 He's usually very adept at keeping his private life out of the media.
14 The President is paying a private visit to Europe.
15 I don't want to invade your private life unnecessarily.