Sentence example with the word 'privation'

privation

abridgment, curtailment, denial, detriment, empty purse, hardship, loser, misplacement, neediness, poverty, stripping

Definition n. a state of extreme poverty

Last update: July 2, 2016


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In India many people are living with privation of food.   [noun]

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Those and similar works were read by working class radicals against a background of social privation, injustice and unrest.   [noun]

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Sydney and Charles experienced acute privation and often hunger, and were eventually taken into public care.   [noun]

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It was only under canvas, in danger and privation, that he lost the sense of being one too many in the world.   [noun]

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These boys see splendor and magnificence around them daily; they know how rich they are in reality, and yet have to suffer from hunger and privation.   [noun]

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All these men are ready to face any kind of privation, suffering, or danger rather than consent to do what they regard as wrong.   [noun]

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They know that they are in slavery and condemned to privation and darkness to minister to the lusts of the minority who keep them down.   [noun]

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A virtue cannot be practiced in all circumstances without self-sacrifice, privation, suffering, and in extreme cases loss of life itself.   [noun]

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But human endurance had been exhausted by overmuch suffering and privation.   [noun]

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Idolatry was destroyed, slavery abolished, dissolution made room for a more austere morality, and the contempt for wealth was sometimes pushed almost to privation.   [noun]

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CHAPTER XII As generally happens, Pierre did not feel the full effects of the physical privation and strain he had suffered as prisoner until after they were over.   [noun]

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