Example sentences for: deprive

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

  • A requirement that the H-2A worker be physically present in the United States when the cause of action arises or the representation commences thus would deprive H-2A workers of representation on many of the most basic employment contract protections afforded by Congress, directly contrary to Congress' purpose.

  • And he'll deprive Gore of a crucial year in which to build his own record of accomplishment.

  • By 1868, we had in place a clause in the Fourteenth Amendment that was unique in American constitutional history: no state could “deprive any person of the equal protection of the laws.”

  • 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.”

  • Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and other internationalists protested the execution would embolden other countries to deprive U.S. citizens overseas of the same rights.


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