privation

Example Sentences

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And it could help a fledgling government to pay salaries, begin to rebuild, and address the growing discontent over the privations of daily life.

From BBC

Unable to deny the economic ruin Trump is inflicting on the nation, the Fox News spinsters have moved to reframing financial privation as a good thing, because it will supposedly restore Americans' lost masculinity.

From Salon

A week earlier, Israelis were horrified and enraged by the frail, near-skeletal condition of three freed Israeli men, and by emerging testimony that hostages had suffered privation and torture under their militant captors.

From Los Angeles Times

Rather, it was because he came to realize he wasn’t empathetic enough to class differences and the privations of others.

From Los Angeles Times

One senior nurse - in a message heard by the BBC - speaks in an exhausted voice of relentless privations allegedly imposed by the Israelis besieging Jabalia.

From BBC