How to use deprive in a sentence

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• You can bind my limbs, but you can never deprive me of my free will.From the entry free will
• They bound my limbs, depriving me of my free will.From the entry free will
• A false positive from a cancer screening test will unnecessarily frighten a healthy person; a false negative will deprive them of timely treatment.From the entry false positive
• While a false positive from a cancer screening test will unnecessarily frighten a healthy person, a false negative will deprive them of timely treatment.From the entry false negative
• If the dieter's solution is to deprive or deform what is the well-being solution?2018, Michael Alvear, V.E. Strousberg, Make Your Life Great Again With Donald Trump’s Classic Moves, Woodpecker Media, →ISBN. From the entry McGriddle
• In many circumstances, religion has been used to bully and intimidate women and deprive them of power.2009 March 27, Madeleine Bunting, “Patriarchal, yes. All bad? No”, in The Guardian. From the entry gilded cage
• The direwolves have been howling non-stop, depriving everyone of sleep but, unsurprisingly, the Starklings.2004 November 28, Richard Boye, “CHOW: aCoK - Bran I, or "I'm Brandon Stark, and I'll Howl if I Want To!"”, in alt.fan-grrm (Usenet). From the entry Starkling
• The crowd hates the picadors who deprive the bull of its first energy to fight.1971, Jill Johnston, Marmalade Me, Dutton, published 1971, page 298. From the entry stabby
• Was the overcall made with the intent of depriving nonintegrated users aluminum from the new facilities?1956, Aluminum Industry, page 421. From the entry overcall
• To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 208. From the entry cenobite
• But depravities deprive the heartless, not the heartworthy.2011, David L. Birdsall, Harbingers of Redoubts. From the entry heartworthy
• To deprive a teenage girl of a phone is devastating.2003, Tom McMahon, Teen Tips: A Practical Survival Guide For Parents With Kids 11-19. From the entry unplugging
• Hidden losses cause hyperdistribution of national income, sending unearned profits to enterprises and depriving the state of revenue.1992, Inside China Mainland, page 150. From the entry hyperdistribution
• Woolen threads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 234. From the entry thread
• To Ukraine, it has become an important line to hold, both to whittle down Russia’s forces and to deprive them of a victory.2023 March 30, Carlotta Gall, “Ukrainians in a Hidden Command Post See Bakhmut Going Their Way”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry whittle down
• They misformulate their own existential insights in ways that either deprive their theories of political relevance or lead to tragically mistaken political commitments.2014, Kerry H. Whiteside, Merleau-Ponty and the Foundation of Existential Politics, page 37. From the entry misformulate
• But it is time to deprive drug lords, organized crime and narcostates of the huge, tax-free profits realized from illicit drug use in our society.2009 February 28, “Legalize drugs to cut violence”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2009. From the entry narcostate
• Did he deprive them of philosophy?2008, Omi Intan Naomi, The sound of silence and colors of the wind between the tip of a cigarette and fire of the lighter. From the entry immoralize
• To deprive the enemy of any advantage they might gain at night, he had star shells which could light up the entire countryside.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 351. From the entry star shell
• So if you find yourself regularly up late at night, basking in the TV's glow, you might be doing more than just depriving yourself of sleep.2025 December 9, Veronique Greenwood, “Your Bedroom Probably Isn't Dark Enough”, in TIME. From the entry up
• But could you, in all conscience, deprive these good people, who are, after all, trying to do their best, of meaningful employment, of earning their livelihoods?2014, Belva Boroditsky Thomas, The Longest Adventure, page 201. From the entry in all conscience
• Eliminating or drastically reducing immigration will not just deprive the U.S. of talented people by the millions, and hurt the economy by eliminating the jobs they create.1995 June 20, A. M. Rosenthal, “On My Mind; Arianna, Go Home!”, in The New York Times. From the entry anti-brown
• The only possible forerunners of Marcuse are the theocrats of the Middle Ages and early Reformation who sought to eliminate science or deprive it of independence.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford…. From the entry theocrat
• No pen could do them justice; and, among painters, only the brush of a Corot could attempt their depicture without depriving them of their exquisite, their almost evanescent, softness.1914, Arnold Haultain, chapter 8, in Of Walks and Walking Tours, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 31. From the entry depicture
• Prominent Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti told the BBC the closure was a "dangerous move" that meant "imprisoning" people in the West Bank and "depriving them from the only passage out".2025 September 25, Tom Bennett, “Palestinians in West Bank stranded as Israel shuts only international crossing”, in BBC, archived from…. From the entry Mustafa
• Williams was co-hosting in place of Katie Couric, a move some have speculated was meant to deprive the possible next anchoress of the CBS Evening News the prime time exposure.2006 February 11, James Poniewozik, “Live from Turin—Sorry, Torino—It's NBC”, in Time, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2014. From the entry anchoress

Meaning of deprive

1. verb Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
2. verb To degrade (a clergyman) from office.
3. verb To bereave.

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Questions about deprive in a sentence

How do you use deprive in a sentence?

Deprive is used as a verb. For example: “You can bind my limbs, but you can never deprive me of my free will.”

What is a short sentence with deprive?

“Did he deprive them of philosophy?”

What does deprive mean?

Deprive means used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.