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Example sentences for "deprivations"

Lexicographically close words:
depressive; depressor; depriue; depriued; deprivation; deprive; deprived; deprives; depriveth; depriving
  1. Our sufferings and deprivations are not sent blindly and fortuitously; they are needful for our good, and although the good may seem very far away, some day we shall realise this.

  2. She could have borne her toil, her simple fare, and the ten thousand deprivations she was subjected to, had this been all; but the averted looks of her friends were more than all these.

  3. As we contemplate the deprivations of one situated as she was, we can but realize the blessing of having "the common use of our own limbs.

  4. An increased minimum of the absolute necessities of life brings also sufferings and deprivations which former times never knew.

  5. The deprivations which he has to undergo come to be looked upon in the light of a punishment, and the rights of cleansing as a means of removing guilt.

  6. These deprivations have usually been the concealed cause of the querulous melancholy of the literary character.

  7. A life of hard deprivations was long that of the illustrious LINNÆUS.

  8. While varied success attends the labors and deprivations of whalemen, yet, on the whole, we must conclude that the enterprise is as profitable, and furnishes as strong inducements for the investment of capital, as almost any other.

  9. For the alarms and deprivations of the siege of Paris were but lately over.

  10. And the consequences they entailed remained also, the restrictions and deprivations they inflicted.

  11. The pioneer in art, as in any other field, must be willing to face deprivations and loneliness and heart-hunger.

  12. The man himself in life was often worn to the quick by the deprivations he had to endure, or the stupid misunderstandings he encountered, so at times he was impatient, erratic, possibly perverse.

  13. Much was written about the deprivations of Chrysostom and Photius, of Nicolaus Mysticus and Cosmas Atticus.

  14. Some zealots, indeed, gave up the vain attempt to distingush between two cases which every man of common sense perceived to be undistinguishable, and frankly owned that the deprivations of 1559 could not be justified.

  15. A sailor could endure with a degree of patience, restraints and deprivations that were death to landsmen.

  16. They must believe in rewards and punishments after death, to enable them to bear the trials and deprivations of their lot in life.

  17. My wife, unfortunately, had not sufficient affection for our child and myself to endure the deprivations to which the disappointment of our hopes of an inheritance from my brother subjected us.

  18. Then we are still rich enough to keep off deprivations for a time!

  19. Suffering all the dangers, exposures and deprivations of the Georgia and Carolina campaigns, our Sergeant was never a day from his Regiment, unless detailed for special duty.

  20. Remember, you that staid at home and experienced none of the trials and deprivations of war, those who sacrificed their health, their lives and their all for you, as well as every other citizen of this great Republic.

  21. He volunteered in the United States service with the Company in 1864, shared the pleasures and deprivations of camp life with his comrades.

  22. Charles thought this a very natural and happy thing, and he told Mrs Monteath, what he himself believed, that these deprivations would be much less formidable in reality than in anticipation.

  23. He seemed quite happy, took pains to obviate, as far as he could, all inconveniences which arose, and bore cheerfully those deprivations which could not be avoided.

  24. Should not the prospective deprivations control a child's conduct also?

  25. And every one, in cases perpetually occurring, may see that it is the prospective deprivations which prevent people from being too late.

  26. When they are caused only by the sympathetic action of the womb, such deprivations are seldom of long duration, though they may recur at frequent intervals.

  27. By degrees I picked up bits of his early deprivations and difficulties, if such they might be called.

  28. As I walked along, the simplicity of country life and its needs and deprivations were impressed upon me, even though I was so young.

  29. We often recalled, when putting up with indifferent service and deprivations elsewhere, the admirable entertainment which we experienced so unexpectedly at this point.

  30. From their stand-point of poverty, with its endless deprivations and hardships, and the hopeless condition of their sex in the East, who can be surprised at the conclusion they adopt?

  31. It gives one such a conception of the seeming ills of life ; to think of Him as our Physician, the ills all remedies, the deprivations only a wholesome regimen, the losses all gains.

  32. Perhaps Ernest perceived and felt my deprivations sooner than I did; his sympathy always seemed to out-run my disappointments.

  33. A more dismal result than the deprivations endured by Sarah Campbell, is the frightful existence of a human creature, called in the American papers, the "Wild Man of the far West.

  34. Not that Mr. Jones was a hard or a dissipated man; but his roving habits, and the deprivations and poverty they endured, had made her days sad and toil-worn.

  35. Not only do they bear the material hardships and deprivations in common with the rest of the family, but in the case of the mother, these are intensified.

  36. Grievous as is her material condition, her spiritual deprivations are still greater.

  37. He cannot be compelled to do this, because the deprivations and sufferings which form such a powerful weapon against men of the state conception of life, have not the least power to compel him.

  38. Even among this garrison, reduced by a long siege and its attendant deprivations to despair, there was a small minority who preferred death to the dishonour involved in surrender.

  39. Deprivations in middle life don't matter; but deprivations in early life can never be made up.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deprivations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.