suffer privation
Example Sentences
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In this war it is trifling ... if one folk must suffer privation in this or that way.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is certain that at no time . . . will my mother suffer privation.
From Time Magazine Archive
The people were bitterly ground down, and they are content to suffer privation in the present so long as they can ensure freedom from alien rule in the future.
From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by Runciman, James
Their attitude was humane, courteous, sympathetic, agreeable, which qualities I firmly believe are supreme in those who know hardship, who suffer privation, who labour.
From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Vorst, Marie Van
He replied that if the old fellow was so unfortunate as to have a bad temper as well as his physical infirmities that was no reason why he should be allowed to suffer privation.
From Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization by Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay)
