Example Sentences

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"Nowadays, if I do that for someone, I will be depriving myself of food I need at home."

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2022

And even if we take an honest married woman, we will be depriving a child of its mother and inflicting an injury upon a being that we do not even know.

From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold

“You have only one son now,” they said, “and have a fair income, and you will be depriving him perhaps of a brilliant career if you keep him here.”

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor