Sentence examples for privilege take from inspiring English sources

Only amateur cricketers are perverse enough to volunteer to play, pay for the privilege, take the whole enterprise with excessive seriousness; then announce to the rest of the team that they'd rather be somewhere else.

It is not thought overly harsh in such situations to require that the determination whether to waive the privilege take into account the matters which may be brought out on cross-examination.

The privilege takes flight if the relation is abused.

And that privilege takes a huge emotional toll on someone".

The privilege takes as its postulate a genuine relation, honestly created and honestly maintained.

Their parallel paths of privilege took them past landmarks that were different in name but identical in spirit: St. Albans School and Harvard University for one, Phillips Academy and Yale for the other.

That realm of South Asian privilege took on a darker tinge in Lahiri's second collection, "Unaccustomed Earth," where the veneer of professional success was shot through with alcoholism, suicidal impulses and depression, especially among the women.

The son, Dandy Mott, is the epitome of the excesses of wealth and privilege taken too far to its detrimental conclusion.

Are the discussions of class, access, whiteness and privilege taking place prior to sending young teachers into communities they may only know from a safari-like perspective?

In the face of such extreme poverty, my vague sense of economic privilege took on an entirely new level of heart-wrenching immediacy: I have way too much.

If you get caught, you could get grounded or have a privilege taken away.