How to Use privation in a Sentence

privation

noun
  • The country has suffered through long periods of economic privation.
  • But amid that boom, the steel industry felt the privations of war.
    — Time, 26 July 2017
  • The pinch of privation is reflected more by the buildings that aren’t there.
    — Austin Murphy, SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • For Ukrainian cities, the initial days of privation will be the worst.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The privation, stress, and death that war inflicts cannot be blamed solely on outsiders.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Parental regret springs from a range of origins, not all having to do with privation of choice or means.
    — R. O. Kwon, TIME, 22 Apr. 2024
  • And some of you suffer from privation or loneliness or ill health, and your hearts ache within you.
    — Columbia Flier, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Weakened by months of self-privation, his heart had slowed to a crawl and his kidneys were faltering.
    — John Leicester, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2021
  • At a time of great privation and upheaval, both the existential and the trivial emerge.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Drag privation out long enough, and scurvy’s victims are stripped of their ability to learn and feel and remember.
    — Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Aid groups have said stopping the war is ultimately the only way to help ease the privation in Gaza.
    — Anushka Patil, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Life, fertility, and abundance—even amid the privations of the dry season.
    — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Now, amid the privation, there have been increases in assaults, robberies, and murders.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Why can’t our leaders imagine anything other than a future of privation and control?
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 May 2022
  • There were obstacles and privations for white immigrants but every step was upward; care and concern could be found.
    — Martin Luther King Jr., The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2018
  • The Israeli operation to capture it has turned it into a place of privation and fear.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The privations are often treated with the nation’s trademark humor.
    — David McKenzie, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Ms Lightfoot, who grew up poor in Ohio, speaks personally about privation.
    — The Economist, 5 Mar. 2020
  • There are age-old customs, social mores and privations, as well as conflict with nation-state ideology.
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 19 July 2024
  • It’s been 13 months since islandwide protests, sparked by extreme privation, filled the streets with calls for liberty.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Her explosive and enraged character owed a lot to a life filled with privations, which was prolonged by having children.
    — Longreads, 21 June 2017
  • In Small Rain, too, the narrator finds himself in extreme privation.
    — Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Mazloumian died shortly afterward, his health having given out amid the danger and privation of the war.
    — Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • Here, where both land and life are flat, the privations of rural teenage existence yield wild and elemental bewitchments.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2017
  • Each comes to understand that the rules that prevailed during calmer times no longer hold, that to cling to them is to willingly accept privation and defeat.
    — Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The world gets an occasional glimpse of this privation when uprisings break out against the regime—followed by the usual arrests and trials.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Those records formed the basis of his book, a story of barbarism, extreme privation, and continual mortal danger.
    — Anatoly Kuznetsov, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Popular discontent had grown throughout the Tsar’s reign and increased sharply under the privations imposed by the war.
    — Terry Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2017
  • In a country ravaged by years of privation and death, the Winstons’ brief tenure — fueled by black-market food and liquor — was distasteful.
    — Sadie Stein, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Despite these privations, analysts say there are few signs that North Korea’s economy has reached a breaking point.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018

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