Sample Sentences for
privation
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    These tales speak of women who were trained in the art of war from childhood—in the use of weapons, and how to cope with physical privation.  (source)
    privation = lack of basic things needed to live in a satisfactory manner
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    "Dear, I think the privations of your time on this island may have affected you in some way—" His Excellency began.  (source)
    privations = things that are lacking which are needed to live in a satisfactory manner
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    They had the hard, winnowed look of men who've spent much of their life outdoors, suffering privation.  (source)
    privation = lack of basic things needed to live in a satisfactory manner
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    At least, out on the beaches, her privation and fear are rinsed away by wind and color and light.†  (source)
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    She is unused to such privations as these, and she has yet to reconcile herself to them.  (source)
    privations = things that are lacking which are needed to live in a satisfactory manner
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    I look upon our life in hiding as an interesting adventure, full of danger and romance, and every privation as an amusing addition to my diary.†  (source)
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    Despite the privations of those weeks and months, our plan for our daughters gave us hope and we tried to remember life's goodness with each passing day.  (source)
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    Outside, sleet tapped at the windowpanes and drizzled over the canal; and though the brocades were rich and the carpet was soft, still the winter light carried a chilly tone of 1943, privation and austerities, weak tea without sugar and hungry to bed.†  (source)
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    He compromised all the rest of his life, risked signing a note without even knowing whether he could meet it; and, frightened by the trouble yet to come, by the black misery that was about to fall upon him, by the prospect of all the physical privations and moral tortures that he was to suffer, he went to get the new necklace, laying upon the jeweler's counter thirty-six thousand francs.  (source)
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    He was as ragged as a rock star, but his missing teeth and the unhealthy pallor of his skin spoke eloquently of a life of privation and despair.†  (source)
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    Having been stripped of their identities, henceforth the zeks—though millions in number—would move in perfect unison, sharing in their privations as well as their will to persist.†  (source)
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    What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war-fever and leader-worship.†  (source)
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    When we're in the barracks, after the privations of the field, we all overdo it-especially when the emperor honors our mess with his presence.†  (source)
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