Example sentences for: depriving

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

  • The president often skirts the law by appointing "acting" officials who "act" for years (such as Lee), depriving the Senate of its constitutional right to approve appointments.

  • Providing escape routes from the inner city may make the ghettos worse by depriving them of their most competent residents.

  • But by depriving Serbia of the ability to kill allied soldiers, NATO leaders demoralized Serb commanders who had counted on body bags to demoralize citizens in the West.

  • Potentially, a host could evolve resistance to such manipulation by maternally inherited bacteria by depriving those bacteria of cues indicating gender.

  • They exploit themselves, by depriving themselves of that private life so essential to a modern liberal society, and at the same time they exploit the casual passerby by forcing that person to eavesdrop and act as audience.


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