deprive
Example Sentences
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It rests on the 14th Amendment’s clause that says no state may “deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law.”
From Los Angeles Times
She shrieked and ranted for a quarter of an hour, then deprived us of our noontime break in the open air that day.
From Literature
“Short-term-oriented capital markets have discouraged companies with a longer term view from going public at all, depriving the economy of innovation and opportunity.”
From Barron's
King Louis XVI deprived his European rival of its colonial jewel but lost his kingdom and his head.
Some may elect not to do work with the Pentagon at all, depriving the American military of the best technology Silicon Valley has to offer.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
