bereft

How To Use bereft In A Sentence

• Rather like Norwegian parrots, most are bereft of life. Times, Sunday Times
• We are now sanitized and correct, factual and precise, but tragically bereft of relationship.
• A person bereft by permanent loss or separation feels this range of emotion multiplied many times.
• Like SHE in her lonely alien gaud waiting her Egyptian lover so I wait -- bereft of 2,000 years and the bath of life. April 2007
• It was like a wave of emotion as people told each other - people were absolutely bereft.
• Well, here's a funny thing, or at least something that will hearten Tollefson: The stats aren't quite as bereft as Tuck thinks they are. The Saddest Man in the Locker Room
• No more moping around the house bereft of ideas. Times, Sunday Times
• The inference was unambiguous: the parliament was an intrusive, petty-minded bunch of jobsworths, bereft of any credibility.
• The movements and the tune and nonsense, an ancient language that's bereft of the life that formed it. Times, Sunday Times
• A Swansea squad bereft of confidence needs a strong front from the new man. Times, Sunday Times