am depriving
- present progressive of deprive (1st person singular).
Example Sentences
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Since you are so afraid that by taking this scholarship I am depriving someone else of an education, I know a way out.
From Daddy-Long-Legs by Webster, Jean
I am depriving your future bride of the pleasure of furnishing her own house, and that's what all brides like better than anything.
From Viola Gwyn by McCutcheon, George Barr
Do not tell your husband, Persephone, or he will complain to Zeus that I am depriving him of his population.
From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Gosse, Edmund
Now I shan't feel I am depriving the other people!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890 by Various
In five minutes I shall be in the saddle, unless I am depriving any worthy gentleman here of the honour of the adventure, which I wouldn't do for the world.'
From Master Humphrey's Clock by Dickens, Charles
