Decree succeeded decree, depriving Protestants of their rights and conferring upon the Roman Catholics wealth and station.
At the same time he issued the most intolerant edicts, depriving the Protestants of all their rights, and endeavoring to force the Roman Catholic religion upon the community.
To steal is to abstract clandestinely, "whereas to take, in the sense of depriving another of his property, generally implies to take from him openly, by right of superior force.
The fetish punished him by depriving him of the power of speech, that he might lie no more, and so for the future he could only make his wants known by signs.
In Teutonic countries the position of illegitimate children as to succession was much more favourable in earlier times than later on when Christianity made its influence felt, depriving them of all title to inheritance.
Among the Menomini Indians a man belonging to the Bear clan may kill a bear, although he must first address himself to his victim and apologise for depriving it of life.
Nothing will ever make a seat in this House not an object of desire to numbers by any means or at any charge, but the depriving it of all power and all dignity.
One child with a cold can infect a whole class or family, thus depriving the class and family of the top of their vitality and efficiency without their consent.
In this period the infamous Nuremberg Laws were passed, depriving the Jews of their rights as citizens, forbidding them to marry Aryans, and eliminating them from additional professions.
However, priests and Catholic leaders influenced the Irish to come to aid King James, on the pretense that his own daughter and her Protestant husband, a foreigner, were depriving this old man of his kingdom because he was a Catholic.
As soon as the appointment of Iphikrates was cancelled, Charidemus forthwith surrendered the hostages to the Amphipolitans themselves, thus depriving Athens of a material advantage.
Our dear little Maria was the greatest sufferer at this time, my illness depriving her of her usual nourishment, and neither a nurse nor a drop of milk could be procured in the village.
How unjustly Brutus acted, in deprivingof honour and country his colleague in that new office, whom he might have deprived of his name, if it were so offensive to him!
Make all labour alike dignified, and nothing is dignified; you simply abolish dignity by depriving it of the contrast that it subsists upon.
Before deprivingher altogether of this Heavenly Food, Our Lord often visited her on her bed of pain.
I was quite sure that this feast would be unclouded; I knew that Our Lord would not try His Spouse by depriving her of my presence, she had already suffered so much on account of my illness.
Besides depriving me of the opportunity of fulfilling a duty, and of the pleasure and the honor of helping you to bear your burden, you have deprived me of the opportunity of indulging a positive passion for pictures.
He spoke in behalf of the poor weavers of Nottingham, whom it was proposed to punish most severely for having destroyed the machinery that was depriving them of their bread.
Mr. Dormer assured them he had no intention of depriving them of either of their valuable parents, even for a single day.
The senate passed a decree, depriving Tarquin of every right belonging to the regal authority, and condemning him and all his posterity to perpetual banishment.
But the very isolation he seeks, in depriving him of moral support, increases his embarrassment.
The idea of depriving himself of a peseta for any other form of outlay than buying to sell was beyond his ken.
The simplest way of remedying the mischief, and depriving these relations of their rights, was to induce his wife to make a will in his favour.
Many and many a time have we seen a batsman rush out to a wide off-ball, and send it into point's or cover's hands, thus depriving himself of his innings and his side of a run.
Had we made a Spanish port, the prominent part I had taken in depriving Spain of her colonies in the Pacific would have ensured me a questionable reception.
The lightest mode of preparing eggs for the table, is to boil them only as long as is necessary to coagulate slightly the greater part of the white, without depriving the yelk of its fluidity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "depriving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
