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Example sentences for deprive
They argue its closure would deprive about 55 people of jobs.
It were futile to attempt to deprive it of its real meaning-Times.
Sluggish sales of new homes deprive the economy of strength.
It's part of a larger effort to reform health care and ensure that cost doesn't deprive people of basic health services.
Scientists should run experiments in which they deprive some naive animals of whatever behavior they suspect is actually teaching.
For example, firefighters will intentionally set sections of forest aflame to deprive an approaching wildfire of kindling.
Now it was certainly a touching story, and it is not my intent to deprive you of this heartwarming fancy.
If you deprive a person of food and water for days they die.
Therefore hast thou been pleased to deprive me of so great a comfort and support: may thy name be for ever praised.
Deprive economies of credit and a similar process kicks in.
But anyone who wants to deprive me or my friends and family of those freedoms is my enemy.
The actual sensation is woven into the dream in order to deprive it of its reality.
In so doing we can deprive the politicians of their primary weapon — fear of the unknown.
To reach this shed unseen would deprive his neighbors of the pleasure of turning him in to the police.
Don't deprive your team of an member for an overly long time.
But raising taxes has a cost, as it will likely deprive the economy from some future growth.
It may be that distractions deprive the errant signals from the auditory cortex of the attention they need to cause real distress.
The main trouble with blooms is that they deprive other species of oxygen.
Woe to us if they who could chase away our enemy be offended by our negligence, and deprive us of their visit.
Blocked arteries deprive the heart of blood and can lead to a heart attack.
But he will deprive you of it, together with your life.
It is mightily convenient, if you deprive your citizens of political liberties, to portray these as a bourgeois luxury.
The temporary lack of contact with warm water would deprive it of power.
Cancellation could deprive some athletes of what may be their only appearance at a world meet.
They deprive low income families of the cheapest affordable omega threes available through media scare.
The greed of politicians plotted to deprive them of even this chance.
In the face of mounting resistance to antibiotics, doctors seek to fool bacteria and deprive them of a critical growth factor.
Yet he has allowed the wind off it to deprive him of his traditional faith the meaning of his life.
Intellectual elitism is but one of many socially constructed value systems which deprive the world it seeks to enlighten.
Deprive them of these jobs and the military is their only option, where they do work for idiot megalomaniacs.
Deprive the brain of testosterone at either time and you risk perturbing the sublime development of maleness.
Overscheduling may deprive kids of important skills.
The devil employs all his artifices to deprive us of this seed of immortality, as the fathers style it.
He decided he didn't want to deprive the surgeon or patients of the chance.
So good parents need not be selfless, or deprive themselves for their children's well-being.
Closing the station would deprive both tribes of free energy-and a lot of money.
The disappearance of glaciers may deprive many of fresh water.
The trees take too much moisture from the ground and deprive other wildlife, he says.
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