How to Use deprive in a Sentence

deprive

verb
  • This will deprive your plant of moisture.
    — Rae Ford, Martha Stewart, 17 Feb. 2026
  • With both teams deprived of rest, this game could get sloppy in one of two ways.
    — Chris Wassel, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 2 Nov. 2019
  • And to deprive her of that in latex would have been a mistake.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Right now, deprive yours of water and let the foliage die back.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Why deprive him of the most treasured of all pitchers’ dreams?
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2022
  • And yet the seller had chosen to deprive him of this one small piece of his home.
    — Joshua Hunt, Curbed, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Edtech won't be the one that deprives people of that; quite the contrary.
    — Oleksandr Mykolaienko, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Some workers and labor groups say the law deprives them of such rights as sick leave.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 14 Mar. 2023
  • There is no need for Dems to cheat and deprive voters of their own choice.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The way to tamp down any dumpster fire is to deprive it of fuel and oxygen.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2020
  • The thing that most deprived you of sort of hope and balance really.
    — Terry Gross, NPR, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Disney then passed measures to deprive the new board of its power for decades.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 11 June 2023
  • Foods that nourish rather than deprive the body are needed now more than ever.
    — Anna Haines, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • The cataracts allow in light and dark but deprive the child of all detailed vision.
    — Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
  • And who in their right mind would want to deprive these hardworking people of that?
    — Claudia Eller, Variety, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Fine, but that also deprives climbers of a source of income and support.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
  • The abuser may deprive you of a phone or car, or try to prevent you from holding a job.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 9 July 2021
  • Lina, married to a man who doesn’t like to kiss her, is a woman deprived of oxygen.
    — Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
  • At the very least, this could be used to deprive Ukraine of valuable transit fees.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2022
  • That right has been deprived, not just for the journalists, but for the public at large.
    — David Folkenflik, NPR, 16 June 2025
  • The problem is that standing water in the soil deprives roots of oxygen.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
  • That in turn will keep depriving the Colorado of rain and snowmelt in the future.
    — Mark Gongloff, Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • So that deprived the Thunder of a top-4 lottery pick.
    — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • Nobody was depriving you of food or water, or chaining you up.
    — Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The state can deprive you of your liberty—that’s the most important thing in the world.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Assam’s Muslims seem set to be only the first group to be deprived of their rights.
    — Joseph Allchin, The New York Review of Books, 6 Jan. 2020
  • And to do two weddings in a finale would've deprived the specialness from both of them.
    — Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
  • Poverty does more than deprive people of resources.
    — Scott Ellis, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
  • This is when a blood clot travels to the brain and interrupts blood flow and deprives the brain of oxygen.
    — Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Opponents have argued that the bill deprives the accused of due process.
    — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025

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