Sentence examples for deprive of from inspiring English sources

"What we give our attention to grows" (and, by extension, what we deprive of our attention withers).

What are they hiding up their sleeves and what protections does David Cameron want to deprive of British workers?

But it gave rise to a figurative sense, less bloody-minded: "to deprive of essential parts, to remove the essence of".

Sunni rebels control dams on the upper reaches of the Euphrates, which gives them the capacity to flood or deprive of water the Shia heartlands in the southern half of the Mesopotamian plain.

It changed the demographics of eastern Anatolia; then, on the basis of these changed demographics, the Turks used the logic of self-determination to deprive of a home the very people they had decimated.

The latter then attempts to deprive of this power by putting him to sleep, extracting the power from 's rib, and molding it into the shape of a woman.

"People are deprived of their freedom.

Defeated, he was deprived of his chieftainship.

Why are we deprived of peace?

Some get upset when deprived of it.

Were they deprived of hope or education?