Privation used in a sentence

Privation in a sentence as a noun

I wonder if this is maybe a confused reference to the privation theory of evil?

It's not simply a privation technique, he seems to be doing it to hack his body for better performance.

I like how they talk about it as if not using Facebook is some extraordinary privation.

With further intimidation, privation, and humiliation, it's not hard to imagine why people could break down.

And not just a little bit: they have to be threatened to the extent that it looks like a worthwhile tradeoff to risk pain, privation, and death just to improve your lot.

There are good reasons people queue up for those Foxcon jobs, believe me. I'm not saying their labour practices are perfect, I don't know, but the risks they run there have got to be a world apart from the risks they run from the privation and squalour of country life in China.

Hardship and privation are everywhere in many large pockets of the world and people live life doing many things they wouldn't do if they had different circumstances.

The ontological argument makes a lot more sense when you start from Augustine's viewpoint that evil is always a privation, a lack, and never a thing itself.

Yes, I making a fallacy of relative privation, but it is true that no matter how good any one person has it, they often feel that they are miserable and want better.

I have personal connections to Ukraine and I suspect that the real problem is hopelessness for the future caused by severe economic privation in the face of media depictions of wealth in other countries.