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 Meanings and Examples of PRIVATION
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privation
 n.  hardship; state of extreme poverty
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The people of the town were suffering hardship, privation, sickness and death as severely as the rest of the Confederacy; but Atlanta, the city, had gained rather than lost as a result of the war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  It was January, midwinter, an awful time to have to face privation.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
3  This, however, is not considered a very great privation.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  I observed, upon that closer opportunity of observation, that she was worn and haggard, and that her sunken eyes expressed privation and endurance.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
5  Hitherto each individual desire, aroused by suffering or privation, such as hunger, fatigue, thirst, had been satisfied by some bodily function giving pleasure.
Anna Karenina(V2) By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 20
6  And now without thinking about it he had found that peace and inner harmony only through the horror of death, through privation, and through what he recognized in Karataev.
War and Peace(V5) By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XII
7  As generally happens, Pierre did not feel the full effects of the physical privation and strain he had suffered as prisoner until after they were over.
War and Peace(V5) By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XII
8  And, withal, a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never a diversion.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
9  No one knows all that certain feeble creatures, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can get out of a sou.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS
10  He knows not what I term privation.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
11  They sat without a fire; but that was a privation familiar even to Fanny, and she suffered the less because reminded by it of the East room.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
12  His need was to exist, and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk, and with a maximum of privation.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
13  There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
14  Here in London we have lots of Government detectives and lots of private ones.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
15  They are mostly sent on by private inquiry agencies.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
Example Sentence: (151 in 11 pages)
16  This weekend, visitors will get a rare chance to visit the private apartments.
17  Admonish your friends in private, praise them in public.
18  Plans to build a private hospital have been scuppered after a government inquiry.
19  Huge sums of private capital will be ploughed into the ailing industries of the east.
20  The regional parliament threw down a new challenge to the central authorities by passing a law allowing private ownership of businesses.
21  He emphasized that he was speaking as a private citizen, not in any official capacity.
22  The king was visiting France as a private citizen.
23  He visited it as a private citizen.
24  The painting comes from his private collection.
25  A private collection of her early paintings is expected to go under the hammer early next year.
26  Most people believe they conduct their private and public lives in accordance with Christian morality.
27  The visitor opened the wrong door and broke in on a private conference.
28  It was a private conversation and I don't want to go into details about what was said.
29  The interviewer probed deep into her private life.
30  The Defense Department has been pressing private contractors for options to speed up deployment of missile defenses.