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Example sentences for "being deprived"

  • If I recall to my mind the pleasures of love, that only produces a more lively sense of regret at being deprived of them.

  • Perhaps the idea, also, of being deprived of the pleasure of seeing her, served to embellish her.

  • The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations.

  • The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits.

  • Defn: Incapable of being deprived, or of being taken away.

  • Objection 1: It would seem that the demons' intellect is darkened by being deprived of the knowledge of all truth.

  • The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigor or strength; unmanly weakness.

  • The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement.

  • Now suicides were formerly punished according to the law of the state by being deprived of an honorable burial, as the Philosopher declares (Ethic.

  • It is certain, that having the Son of God, we suffer no injury in being deprived of all else: for thus highly ought we indeed to prize him.

  • The repose I enjoyed with ecstasy was disturbed by nothing but the fear of being deprived of it, and this inquietude was accompanied with some bitterness.

  • The King of Burmah assailed the eastern limits of Bengal and was punished by being deprived of Assam and Aracan.

  • But in the mean while John, being deprived of his continental dominions, was constrained to reside in England, and proved a most undesirable neighbour to his unhappy subjects.

  • This is probably in token of his wrath at being deprived of his sister.

  • The ceremony may be designed to express the annoyance of the bride's mother at being deprived of her daughter.

  • But it was only my fear of being deprived of so much bliss made me so grossely to mistake, for I quickly found my happiness inlarged by the approaching light, my sence of seeing being now made Copartner with that of feeling.

  • Being deprived of its imployment, and dipossest of its antient habitation, its heart-strings were ready to break, and being not able to take a nap for grief, turned changeling.

  • Meanwhile, the Asses, feeling the Hemlock's power in their bodies, fell down on the public road, being deprived of all motion and sensation.

  • In the no-moon period, being deprived of all its leaves, it hides itself.

  • The Israelites, who had learnt in Egypt to prize this vegetable, murmured at being deprived of its use, and expressed their preference of it to Manna itself.

  • At this period the Inquisition was in imminent danger of being deprived of the power of arresting individuals without the consent of the king.

  • The inquisitors have been punished (though rarely) by being deprived of their offices; this, however, had no effect.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being deprived" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being agreeable; being alone; being asked; being capable; being captured; being carried; being considered; being converted; being disturbed; being eager; being easily; being full; being given; being justified; being known; being married; being more; being nearly; being ordered; being played; being poor; being shot; being unable; being watched; being wounded; great veneration