Sentence examples for what deprived from inspiring English sources

Some of us didn't wear cashmere until we were well into our 20s: what deprived childhoods we must have had.

"The money that's paid out by such claims, which in my judgment are not worthy in many cases, is what deprives the city of spending money on matters that really are needed for the entire city".

Pinning Steele to a counter, Malloy raised a brass bear statuette in his hand and bellowed, "You're a scoundrel and a blackguard / And I don't know what deprives me of the pleasure / Of smashing your head in with this!" "Let's go back to your entrance once more," Chavkin, who wore ripped jeans, told him.

Instead, our complaint might be that death brings life, which is a good thing, to an end, and, other things being equal, what deprives us of good things is bad.

Is this what this deprived area really needs?

On the flip side, I also feel guilty for what I deprived my child of.

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, "Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood", but I didn't feel that way at all.

But even more important than the impact on inmates (and it is important), is what being deprived parental contact means to the children left behind.

Would you take what is not rightfully yours; what is not offered; what will deprive or defile another?

In the early nineteen-nineties, he would write in the margins of his copy of Alice Miller's "Drama of the Gifted Child" — with all the remorselessness of a grown man examining his childhood to try to figure out why he was such an unhappy thirty-something — that as a boy he had tried to be "what narcissistically deprived Mom wants you to be — performer".

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