Sentence examples for deprive himself from inspiring English sources
The phrase "deprive himself" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when discussing someone intentionally withholding something from themselves, such as a privilege or pleasure. Example: "He decided to deprive himself of dessert for the entire month to focus on his health."
In despair, he was trying to deprive himself as well.
He spends his time surfing and fitness training, meditating, and maintaining a healthy diet - but swears by coffee and doesn't deprive himself.
The first, entirely self-inflicted, was to deprive himself of his two most effective generals: Marshal Davout, left behind to guard Paris, and Marshal Suchet, put in charge of defending the eastern border against possible attack by the Austrians.
Woodcock may have given Alma a life, but the proof that she's become truly alive is that she won't let him take that life away from her — and won't let him deprive himself of her presence, either.
He said to the interpreter: "If it was the religion of His Majesty to deprive himself of smoking and alcohol, I must point out that my rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and, if need be, during all meals and in the intervals between them.
I understood pretty well the winning and losing that had taken place between Sylvia and Roxanne, but it was strange to think of the almost obliterated prize, Mr. Crozier — and to think that he could have had the will to make a decision, even to deprive himself, so late in his life.
Depriving himself of basketball, he said, has given him a surprising new hunger for it.
"He deprived himself of true union because he was not ever in love".
But he's hardly depriving himself; he's currently in the market for a Monet.
It is ridiculous that he has deprived himself of the option of silence.
In the same interview, Mr Berlusconi also succeeded in depriving himself of succour from the left-wing opposition.
