privation

in a sentence

"Dear, I think the privations of your time on this island may have affected you in some way—" His Excellency began.  (source) Terry Pratchett, Nation, 2008

They had the hard, winnowed look of men who've spent much of their life outdoors, suffering privation.  (source) Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea, 2006

She is unused to such privations as these, and she has yet to reconcile herself to them.  (source) Christopher Paolini, Brisingr, 2008

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) Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, 2009

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) Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, 2005

At least, out on the beaches, her privation and fear are rinsed away by wind and color and light.†  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

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) Guy de Maupassant, The Diamond Necklace, 1884

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) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

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) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

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) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

His had been a childhood of privations, discomfort, harshness, interminable nighttime rosaries, fear, and guilt.†  (source) Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits, 1986

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) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997

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) Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War, 1991