Example Sentences

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Perhaps that’s Zhao’s point, that loss deprives us of the people we once were.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025

Ghosting is uncanny not only because it deprives us of certain codified social rituals for disentangling our relationships.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Arbor heats it to extreme temperatures and deprives it of enough oxygen to make the biomass fully combust.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025

This does not just cause disruption to the community thus "shut down", it also deprives family breadwinners of their income and prevents children from going to school.

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2024

Reacting to the portrait in “a direct, straightforward fashion,” without the benefit of additional knowledge, deprives us of an understanding that is necessary for full appreciation.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson