privation

Example Sentences

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Their privations on women descended on Nooria for the first time in her life.

From BBC

Cuban leaders blame the privations on the island — where food and medicine shortages have grown worse during the Covid-19 pandemic — on the embargo, a web of laws and regulations that began in the 1960s.

From New York Times

The following day, the president struck a more conciliatory tone, acknowledging the privation and distress many Cuban families are experiencing.

From New York Times

Even the rich — who had long been able to insulate themselves from Lebanon’s privations — have had to ration generator use.

From Los Angeles Times

Today, once again, there is widespread and desperate privation, due to the effects of the covid-19 pandemic and a set of gratuitously cruel new sanctions imposed by the Trump administration.

From Washington Post