How to Use deprived in a Sentence

deprived

adjective
  • The diet allows you to eat small amounts of your favorite foods, so you won't feel deprived.
  • As blood is pumped back into deprived tissues, those cells are more likely to die.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2019
  • The key to keeping your commitment to eating vegan is to not feel deprived.
    — Cathy Garrard, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2021
  • The subjects here felt more balanced and less deprived, which kept them going longer on a restricted calorie diet.
    — Aarti Sanan, Redbook, 28 Feb. 2012
  • Conditions at the school were often brutal; staff deprived boys of meals, forced them to do manual labor and abused them.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017
  • His plan is to lie low and not attract attention, but that's easier said than done when his deprived students beg him to teach them how to fence.
    — Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • That's the difference between him and somebody like Jackson, who is a deprived son of a teenage mother.
    — Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
  • As long as persons in any part of the world remain deprived of their fundamental rights and freedom, we are all diminished.
    — Chito Gascon, Time, 30 May 2018
  • Now growing demand for metals from ethical sources could spark a revival in one of Britain's most deprived regions.
    — Lauren Kent and Nina Dos Santos, CNN, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The prevailing theme was that these folks did not feel deprived or punished, typical feelings when on a restrictive diet.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 15 Feb. 2018
  • For low-income families living in deprived parts of Houston and other cities, that’s easier said than done.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2017
  • Teenagers from deprived areas are bringing bottles of acid to school as a form of self-defense, according to the London Times.
    — Tara John, Time, 14 July 2017
  • Britons see inequality between more and less deprived areas, as well as income and wealth as the most serious types of inequality.
    — Rob Whiteman, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • Further studies show excessive drinkers in deprived areas are up to 11 times more likely to come to harm than those in more affluent neighborhoods.
    — Alastair Jamieson, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Before the financial crash of 2008, the unemployment rate was lower in these wards than in other deprived places.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • For many of those seeking a way out of dangerous and deprived circumstances, Europe is the preferred destination.
    — Linas Kojala, CNN, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Children living in deprived settlements had to travel further to reach a playground, and those playgrounds tended to be smaller than those in less deprived areas.
    — Laurie Winkless, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • And compared to the good old days when the boys were together nearly 24/7, Directioners feel more deprived than ever.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Were Hungary deprived of voting rights, the PPE would lose its plurality of seats in the assembly.
    — Monika Nalepa, Washington Post, 10 July 2018
  • Nobody gets any joy from seeing a race winner defrocked long after the fact––not the busted athlete, nor the champion-by-default who will always feel deprived of their moment of triumph.
    — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Cardiac arrest leads to collapse within seconds, whereas a heart attack typically causes progressive damage as the deprived heart tissue begins to die.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Mar. 2026
  • There is a mandatory part of the academy scholarship where boys undertake community projects, working with schools in deprived areas close to St James’.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2019
  • While poverty has been greatly reduced, the area remains relatively deprived, the center of a heroin epidemic that exploded in Dublin in the 1970s.
    — Ed O’Loughlin, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Recruits typically come from deprived areas, and as Russia’s economy disintegrates in slow motion, the bonanza offered by the army looks increasingly appealing.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • After lawmakers in Germany determined that anonymous surrenders deprived children of the chance to learn anything about their parentage, Germany passed a confidential-birth law in 2014.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The advisory highlighted other barriers to rolling out Community Notes outside the US, including translation issues or how many countries will still lack full internet connectivity in rural or deprived areas, which could lead to biased notes.
    — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 28 Mar. 2026

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