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How to use privation in a sentence

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Neither is the plea that violence and privation, the sacrifice of the present, may be the price of breaking through to a better future.
Those who love to play the martyr submerge their own personalities. They devote a lifetime to unnecessary servitude and privation.
Ultimately, most crime arises not from greedy human nature, but from privation and the social dislocation that accompanies it.
The difficulty of the lottery is that it might not consistently deceive phylakes who have had a long term of sexual privation.
It points to a privation of being, to the absence of moral, spiritual being, in Panurge.
All of these characters are subjects whose bodies convey an anguished message about pain and privation that cannot be articulated any other way.
This book is an unremitting account of misery, privation, and pointlessness in a world of dun landscapes, tormenting insects, malnutrition, and cultural stagnancy.
In 12 compact, tension-filled chapters based on the runaways' reminiscences, Fradin recounts their hairbreadth escapes from abuse and privation.
And with each passing day the situation only gets worse with growing reports of privation outside Athens.
The children of this class who are now in their early twenties remember little or nothing of Soviet privation and are active on the nightlife social scene.
We had escaped gloom and privation and would wake up in a place where food and warmth were available down the street.
Possible redemption comes in the form of Orlando, a magician determined to save Ewa from a live of privation.
The index uses a more complex model of privation, which takes into account productivity, quality of life, infrastructure development and environmental sustainability, as well as equity and social inclusion.
It charts the violent death, in 1946 rural Kent, of a middle-aged reclusive woman, at a time when Britain's celebratory mood is muted by privation and rationing.
Officials insist they are moving as fast as they can to overhaul their labour laws and improve conditions for construction workers, who face privation, penury and harsh restrictions on workplace rights in the Gulf state.
Philosophies have been based on that fact: philosophies that encouraged fortitude, that promised to reward privation, that praised and exalted those who did without.
Captives often suffered from privation on voyages to North Africa if taken at a distance.
In summer, pollution is a scourge for organisms undermined by privation.
The millennia of oppression, instead of driving the Athenians into obtuse moroseness, have honed their wit and rendered them tough but supple, while centuries of privation have only preserved their warmth and generosity.
It is just as different from the privation of life as a concentration camp is from prison.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They must, therefore, be protected from any privation whatever, independently of anything that I may do.
How pitiable are their physical conditions, their privation and distress of body!
What a strange life of privation, thought I, alone and companionless as he must be!
The Saints did continue to suffer much persecution, some did apostatize, others did die of exposure, disease and privation.
If the definition of privation shows the indetermination of matter, it can at least indicate its nature.
I had been accustomed from the beginning to dryness and privation.
It is the profiteer, not privation, that makes man shake his chains.
In fact, if any man's external could proclaim want and privation, his did.
It was not the dread of failure and privation which troubled him.
To this privation submarine warfare has contributed materially.
He could cease to think of them only when he ceased to think of his loss and privation, and the days had as yet but scantily lightened the weight of this incommodity.
I observed, upon that closer opportunity of observation, that she was worn and haggard, and that her sunken eyes expressed privation and endurance.
As the months had dragged or flown along, retarded or spurred on as privation or adventure predominated, thoughts of his own home, while oft recurring, had become less vivid.
Had she done everything in her power to lighten Godfrey's privation?
Hitherto each individual desire, aroused by suffering or privation, such as hunger, fatigue, thirst, had been satisfied by some bodily function giving pleasure.
It was January, midwinter, an awful time to have to face privation.
Whilst the prince was settling down to this second year of toil and privation, the ship made a rapid voyage and arrived safely at the Ebony Island.
Darkness now rose, As daylight sunk, and brought in louring Night, Her shadowy offspring, unsubstantial both, Privation mere of light and absent day.
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