Example sentences for: deprive

How can you use “deprive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Leslie Dunkling writes [XVII,1], “In many Jewish families [belief that use of a living person's name would deprive him of his soul] prevents the use of a relation's name if the person concerned is still alive.”

  • Now such an agreement would probably provoke open rebellion, divide the House, and deprive the speaker of a working majority.

  • To abridge is "to contract, to diminish; to deprive of."

  • His enemies are trying to deprive him of that payoff by binding the two stories together.

  • (Caution: this should not be interpreted as an attempt by the Microsoft Corp. to collude with you to deprive your employer of your services.


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