deprive

Example Sentences

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Doing so could, in theory, cut off the nation's oil shipments, depriving the nation of much-needed revenue and forcing it to make greater concessions to the Americans in exchange for an end to hostilities.

From BBC

Youth and community groups are among those set to benefit from funding aimed at turning around deprived areas.

From BBC

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