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
The young man, bereft of a father, worked shoulder to shoulder with Labh Singh on his 22 bighas of land, often taking on hard labour and letting his ‘servant ‘do the lighter work.’
Stagiaires with small cups of herbs elbow others with pipettes of oil out of the way in order to get to the plate, while still others, momentarily bereft of anything to do, crowd around trying to watch. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
Critics are also right in suggesting that his policy agenda is somewhat bereft of concrete plans.
The shock of his departure had left her feeling alone and bereft.
Long grass on each side of the street, a derelict and neglected building bereft of glass and doors.
The channel at best is purely vague and bereft of any creative leanings.
She sits alone, lost in thought, her expression bereft, a tissue in her hand. School Offers Life Lessons To North Korean Defectors
Our modern game is bereft of such pervasive facial topiary. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly this community is bereft of sporting success and devoid of any heroes.
The team now seems bereft of inspiration.
But the film is strikingly bereft of tangible anger, its mood more poignant than incendiary.
We had our health physically, but we were bereft emotionally.
It will leave you bereft and wanting more. Times, Sunday Times
When we were liberated, we were almost naked, bereft of all possessions, clad in a prisoner's striped uniform and wooden clogs.
But these objects will be bereft of the patina of age, the rips, tears and stains that create a sense of history.
Happily, yesterday the Moses talk was brought to an end by the April baby herself, who suddenly remembered that I had not yet seen and sympathised with her dearest possession, a Dutch doll called Mary Jane, since a lamentable accident had bereft it of both its legs; and she had dived into the schoolroom and fished it out of the dark corner reserved for the mangled and thrust it in my face before I had well done musing on the nature and extent of my love for Moses -- for I try to be conscientious -- and bracing myself to meet the next question. The Solitary Summer
Although deciduous, it reveals an attractive network of small stems and branches when bereft of leaves.
It was an answerless answer, bereft of content. Times, Sunday Times
Each of the main characters is left bereft and haunted - literally - by the Civil War.
Yesterday we spied her, as her own funeral played out, bereft in a dank cellar. Times, Sunday Times
Is life now bereft of enjoyment? Times, Sunday Times
The shock of his departure had left her feeling alone and bereft.
Even though he had the uneasy feeling that she was disappointed in him, he felt bereft when her image, too, blanked out.
Why was he so chronically bereft of the social skills necessary for good political management?
Certainly, the first 45 minutes were scrappy, untidy and bereft of anything resembling skilful football.
Some of them travelled in fifth class, which consisted of boxcars totally bereft of comfort.
Alone now and almost penniless, he was bereft of hope.
But they were far too good for an Aussie team bereft of confidence and undermined by injuries. The Sun
Those adolescents are the ones which no conventional school in Buckinghamshire will accept, the ones who are seemingly bereft of both hope and a future. Times, Sunday Times
There was great love between them, and her Majesty, and of course the Queen Mother, are going to be completely bereft.
Yet these places, bereft of services we regard as normal, are clearly a step up from the deeper poverty of their rural hinterlands.
Tobacco has no attraction for me, though I am far from being bereft of vices.
Such is the current attack - one devoid of reason, bereft of honour and lacking in morality.
He was utterly bereft when she left home. Times, Sunday Times
Only Steve looked like a man ready to take responsibility while all around him players looked bereft of confidence.
Two Madonna-and-childs, reversed out in a stark negative: the bounteous white woman, bereft of her own baby, suckling the child of a dying African.
Our modern game is bereft of such pervasive facial topiary. Times, Sunday Times
In his recent writings, Millennium People [10] and Kingdom Come, [11] Ballard depicts a Britain bereft of social values other than those of daytime TV and the shopping centre, and while his central characters can lack credibility his general description of the cultural landscape is far more accurate than almost anything that has been published in the pages of any recent architectural publication. Ballardian » A Near Future: Nic Clear’s Tribute to JG Ballard
They strolled around the pitch looking traumatised and bereft. Times, Sunday Times
The L.A. Times team has written a searing, unflinching and unequivocal indictment of a morally criminal operation bereft of any apologies or doubts.
Coventry arrived winless in League One and bereft of confidence. The Sun
In his room I told him about this farmer, word for word; and I sat picking at the table cover like one bereft of sagaciousness. The Gentle Grafter
The shot seemed a little empty and bereft of depth.
Defeat from Wales in London on Saturday cannot be countenanced by a nation who continually boast of their strength in depth and competition for places, but who suddenly look bereft in key areas.
Determining what dreams mean is an inexact science, but not one bereft of logic and sense.
Sarah is bereft and in her misery turns to Jannik, who to everyone's surprise grows up suddenly and takes responsibility for his brother's family.
She looks straight out of the canvas, utterly and completely bereft of the merest fluttering thought. Times, Sunday Times
That they are so wilfully unstylish, so bereft of everything that makes a car interesting or fun. Times, Sunday Times
They strolled around the pitch looking traumatised and bereft. Times, Sunday Times
Alone now and almost penniless, he was bereft of hope.
A pale light, rising in the outer air, fell straight upon the bed; and on it, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man. A Christmas Carol
The collapse of the old left/right divide has left political life bereft of clear competing principles.
As an Aussie abroad for Christmas, I had visions of myself as an Oliver Twist character, alone, miserable, bereft of friends and family for the festive season.
A manager deserves to lose his job when the board sees a team going backward, bereft of hope or fresh ideas. Times, Sunday Times
Access to politicians is the least of our worries - the problem is that politics is bereft of any vision that inspires us.
In addition there are the so-called Coro dunes that make up extensive mobile dunes to the north of Coro; they are highly developed and almost totally bereft of vegetation. Paraguana xeric scrub
Music was meant to be heard through a surreal filter, and without it, the fair to middling material confronting me daily is left painfully naked, bereft of the alchemic powers of those magical elixirs.
Of all the bereft women presented in this section, the servant-girl struck me as the most crushed.
That is why many of streets still seem so bereft life and energy. Times, Sunday Times
They are bereft, insecure and despairing immigrants left in the street to beg.
PNB, you are a mess sir, incoherant and a lazy thinker, your witticisms lack both wit & incision, your punditry is bereft of puns and dittys. Cheeseburger Gothic » Day trip.
How can you feel bereft of something that you have never experienced?
Perhaps it says a lot for the depth of Brazil's squad that they have advanced to the latter stages bereft of such a constellation of talent.
She wanted to see him so badly that she felt physically bereft.
If this administration is bereft of ideas and paralysed by fear, it is also cloaked in dishonesty. Times, Sunday Times
Now that I am bereft of it, my fond, my mortified recollection goes back to scenes, which, could I return to them again, would afford me the most exquisite delight -- the antepast of heaven. The African preacher : an authentic narrative,
Followed a solo dance by Ravinski in which he gave full vent to the anguish of the bereft lover, while now and again the swan swam statelily by him. The Lamp of Fate
The dwarves were a sorry sight, bereft of their weapons, most of them barefoot. The Doom Brigade
Yesterday we spied her, as her own funeral played out, bereft in a dank cellar. Times, Sunday Times
They are all, alas, bleeding demised, passed on, no more, ceased to be, bereft of life and resting in peace. Ghosts of Gone Birds: exhibition enlists artists to save endangered species
Holistic medicine, which for centuries had been associated with the humours, still exists - though largely bereft of humoral theory - as alternative medicine.
To his bereft family and friends in the racing fraternity we offer our condolences for their great loss and our appreciation for the memories of this brave young man.
Happily, yesterday the Moses talk was brought to an end by the April baby herself, who suddenly remembered that I had not yet seen and sympathised with her dearest possession, a Dutch doll called Mary Jane, since a lamentable accident had bereft it of both its legs; and she had dived into the schoolroom and fished it out of the dark corner reserved for the mangled and thrust it in my face before I had well done musing on the nature and extent of my love for Moses -- for I try to be conscientious -- and bracing myself to meet the next question. The Solitary Summer
But this series finale left me utterly bereft. The Sun
Though financially richer she is emotionally bereft and may never open herself up again.
Likewise, we once poured forth of our abundance in selfless sharing with the destitute of the world, obedient to the behest of God to "love one another" and to demonstrate our love by generously giving of our superabundance to those who are bereft of all substance. Wide, Wide World
In the original, the poem is terse, rendering language itself bereft. The Times Literary Supplement
Small in scope, minutely focused on the emotional dynamics of a gaggle of neurotic urban characters, shot in dark, unslick images and wholly bereft of special effects, Baumbach's closely observed tale of dysfunctional family relationships has the microscopic texture of a New Yorker short story and the darting, spontaneous style of a French New Wave movie. Here There Be Monsters
But I was bereft, left, and wearing sorrow in the hottest sun Ireland had ever seen.
The prospect of being marooned on Gullholm for days with a Heathcliff bereft of his Cathy gave her the creeps.
But only the most blinkered soul could fail to see that the football team were as inexperienced as they were feckless, as bereft of defensive qualities as they were deficient technically.
Now she's bereft of life. Times, Sunday Times
Spanish forces attempting to take over estates in 1896 were often met with gunfire; employers hoping to pay in scrip in 1901 often found themselves bereft of workers.
The Web was a dismal place for ingesting information because it was visually bereft, difficult to move around in, and generally unpleasant.
The best thing about it all is that it is utterly bereft of all style, aesthetic quality or fashion sense. Times, Sunday Times
This verdant valley at the meeting point of the Eastern and Western Ghats is bereft of any civic or infrastructure development.
Thus was the contrary proved: the party was bereft of new ideas altogether.
Left only with me - this vulgarian, this banker - she felt not only bereft but betrayed. DEATH OF A NYMPH
She used the death of her mother to avoid the boys her own age, telling all would-be suitors that she had to take care of her poor bereft father.
Like Hemingway, who also once mislaid a novel, Kay felt bereft and quickly drove back to where he'd left it but it was gone.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a statement called Havel "an inspiration" to human-rights defenders around the world while singer Lou Reed, whose band the Velvet Underground had an influence on Havel, wrote on his webpage that the ex-president was a "true hero in a world bereft. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
Yesterday we spied her, as her own funeral played out, bereft in a dank cellar. Times, Sunday Times
We love seeing who wins - but we'll feel bereft without our daily jungle fix. The Sun
It was a curious match, bereft of the usual passion of the fixture.
Viewers don't leave the cinema feeling bereft. Times, Sunday Times
Whilst the main parties vie for support amongst the wealthy, the working class has been politically disenfranchised and is bereft of any means of articulating its independent interests.
The image presented was of potentially active individuals bereft both of health and satisfaction through enforced retirement from economic activity.
And he is still bereft of confidence when he approaches the net. Times, Sunday Times
Wolves looked short of ideas and bereft of confidence. The Sun
He may still do so but must now factor in that some of his senior players are bereft of confidence and need to find some rhythm again. Times, Sunday Times
The looters behaved as if altogether bereft of their senses.
A couple of the Hilton residents were doctors or premedical students, so we were never bereft of health treatment.
In the original, the poem is terse, rendering language itself bereft. The Times Literary Supplement
But, undismayed, the hero inserted the wounded stump into the shield, and drawing with his left hand a Hunnish half-sword girt to his right side, he struck at Hagen so fiercely that he bereft him of his right eye, cutting deep into the temple and lips and striking out six of his teeth. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine
You know, we have orphans and widows, and bereft people who are going to need our help for a long time to come.
With the tracks largely bereft of melody or theme, Villalobos dives ever more deeply into percussive gumbo and leaves accessible hooks behind.
Yet Liverpool were too often bereft of ideas when it came to set pieces. The Sun
I suppose the handlebars are the "suburbs," because only a woosie completely bereft of street cred would put a brake lever there. There's The Rub: Marketing Gone Amok Awry
They look a team totally bereft of confidence. The Sun
Close at hand, too, there is a reliefless and relentless smell of pitch and turpentine; there is a ceaseless melancholy in their sighing and complaining foliage; one walks over a soundless carpet of beaten yellow bark and dead spines of the foliage till he feels like a wandering spirit bereft of a footfall; he tires of the endless tufts of needles and yearns for substantial, shapely leaves; he looks for moss and grass to loll upon, and finds none, for where there is no bark there is naked clay and dirt, enemies to pensive musing and clean apparel. Roughing It
Decimated by disease, famine, and war, and bereft of its leaders and its labor force, the Kampuchean society will need decades to come back, if it survives at all. Kampuchea: A Demographic Catastrophe
Although October is often opaque and unintelligible, it is not utterly bereft of sense. Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education
Lanzmann isn't interested in extracting pity from his viewers; for him, history is present, undeniable and bereft of palliatives.
After the fire swallowed his cottage , the old man could not but feel utterly bereft.
The arts maffia in the education establishment believe it is possible to achieve an education and be bereft of any facts. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Peking airport was practically bereft of all colour for the arrival. Times, Sunday Times
When a young poet fails to find the words he can moan and wail and lament his wanton muse, gone off and left him bereft and lonesome.
Cowboys rarely, if ever, ate pasta and Italy's history, while rich and storied, is bereft of tales of cattle rustlers, gunslingers and homesteaders circling the wagons.
Lyall stood in the middle of the yard, desolate and bereft, not sure what to do or think.
Anyone feeling bereft at the missing V&A collection should pop round the corner instead. Times, Sunday Times
If a pretty, snowy mountain slope is tilted steeply and bereft of trees, it's an avalanche zone.
Among the military regime's most strident critics, both New Zealand and Australia's chief diplomats were expelled from the capital Suva last November, which Smith said left both nations "bereft" of the ability to initiate or have meaningful talks. Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
But here again a great swath of Americans whose sense of personal identity and pride was tied to their eleemosynary activities in their communities are now bereft of even this intrinsically important part of their lives. Raymond J. Learsy: Krugman Takes On the Angry Rich But Misses Their Pompous Pieties
He looked bereft, almost lost, as he surveyed the wreckage of yet another disappointment. Times, Sunday Times
When the Thracian slave Spartacus fights in the arena, vast crowns of blood fan suddenly from head wounds, arms are scythed off, a man bereft of legs is pitchforked in the back, and blood spots spatter the camera lens. John Hannah: 'I play a devious, lying, cheating, ambitious mother******. It's great!'
The Oregonian is nearly entirely bereft of journalistic integrity AND Paulson is a d****e bag. Little Lord Paulson critiques his new surroundings (Jack Bog's Blog)
But his wife's death left him bewildered and bereft.
Proceedings are based largely on scientific and medical evidence in a field that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has described as "bereft of complete and direct proof of how vaccines affect the human body. David Kirby: High Rates of Autism Found in Federal Vaccine Injury Program: Study Says More Answers Needed
It is a horrible irony that a man who gave us so much hope ended up bereft of the stuff. Times, Sunday Times
While they may be provocative, they're quite bereft of the histrionics and hyperbole we've become used to in contemporary art.
A bereft woman stands near the rubble of her home, destroyed by bombs.
I hope this will be an opportunity to cross international boundaries and express practical help and love for those who are bereft and homeless.
I hope this will be an opportunity to cross international boundaries and express practical help and love for those who are bereft and homeless.
It would really give the show that dash of glam that it's lacking, especially given the charisma-bereft cast of this season.
But this series finale left me utterly bereft. The Sun
It was intended to be merely a _parergon_ -- a "second subject," upon which daylight energies might be spent, while the hours of night were reserved for cataloguing those stars that "are bereft of the baths of ocean. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
I wish that slogan never became so overused for it is merely become a catch phrase bereft of meaning. msspurlock said ... Israelated - English Israel blogs
Alas, filmmaker Chris Columbus does not appear to tweet (I checked), so we must for now remain bereft of his feelings concerning Leonard, Sheldon, Wolowitz, and Raj’s tradition of celebrating “Columbus” Day by watching the Columbus-penned generational touchstonesGoonies, Gremlins, andYoung Sherlock Holmes — probably the nicest Columbus Day joke evermade about theHome Alone director, in fact. 'Big Bang Theory': Raj, deported? Sheldon to the rescue! | EW.com
And that was at a time when even county matches, now bereft of crowds unless they are one-day slogs, had good attendance figures.
Bears are being forced into smaller and smaller allotments bereft of seals and they have to find something else to eat, and that generally means each other. Times, Sunday Times
The dominant available images prescribe a particularly parochial set of options: a barricaded and insulated rejectionist leadership; pitiful masses suffering in teeming refugee camps or squalid, quarantined communities; and, most prominent of all, terrorist suicide bombers, fanatical malevolent creatures, bereft of normal human motivation and well beyond our comprehension. January « 2008 « Bill Ayers
Before thee the Stygian pools [296-329] shook for fear, before thee the warder of hell, couched on half-gnawn bones in his blood-stained cavern; to thee not any form was terrible, not Typhoeus 'self towering in arms; thou wast not bereft of counsel when the snake of Lerna encompassed thee with thronging heads. The Aeneid of Virgil
No house of worship nor community center should be bereft of personnel or equipment for such education.
Yesterday we spied her, as her own funeral played out, bereft in a dank cellar. Times, Sunday Times
Is the despair of victims and misfits more abject because they can't foresee a reversal of fortune, or because they feel bereft of allies, or because they can't conceive of themselves as heroes in disguise? Elizabeth Cunningham: Fairy Tales: An Antidote to Bullying?
Once there, he found himself bereft of ideas. Times, Sunday Times
Bereft of affordable health care, devoid of a decent place to live, watching mutely as politicians cynically 'readjust' standards to appear to be addressing their problems, Americans, New Yorkers, are not like Iranians. Michael Henry Adams: New Yorkers at the Crossroads?
With little or no rain in the last week the venue should be bereft of any significant colour and roach and perch will be the main target species.
I love having my dogs around, but now I'm totally bereft.
There are the owners who go and leave their dogs at home for six or seven hours a day, bereft of human company and unable to relieve themselves.
The three lovelies were bereft of canteen, maps, sleeping gear, and even food, as they trudged into God's country with only their beauty and their image to protect them.
We love seeing who wins - but we'll feel bereft without our daily jungle fix. The Sun
The bereft father believes his son's killing was the result not just of an evil individual's action but of a growing problem with violence in schools.
Repelled by crowded Europe, he opts for Southland, but is lonely and bereft.
But, in the end, the combativeness that stood him in such good stead as a politician cost him the job he loves, leaving him both personally and professionally bereft.
Places bereft of major retailers are generally in decline and it's independents and charity shops that move in like weeds rather than chain stores.
Such bloodstained enormities pass unnoticed now in a media pummelled into numbness by a government at last bereft of any moral sense or shame.
The team now seems bereft of inspiration.
Such a claim is bereft of imagination, competence and, dare I say, common sense.
Bereft of her image and most intimate self-images, her only remaining refuge is in the realm of sound.
Mulberry was a little short on heritage; worse still, it was bereft of excitement.
Now they've gone back to Ireland and his wife is bereft.
We drove through the Mourne Mountains: bleak stony slopes, bereft of trees, people, and even sheep. The Bloomsday Dead
It is the rapid accumulation of land by old and new-style landlords, sweeping over old settlements and overtaking new settlements in the frontier areas, which has made fertile the ground for a peasant-based and proletarian-led armed revolution in a semicolonial and semifeudal country bereft of an industrialization program to absorb displaced peasants. Crisis of the Semifeudal Economy - Lectures on Phillippine Crisis and Revolution
Critics are also right in suggesting that his policy agenda is somewhat bereft of concrete plans.
We are now sanitized and correct, factual and precise, but tragically bereft of relationship.
He may still do so but must now factor in that some of his senior players are bereft of confidence and need to find some rhythm again. Times, Sunday Times
As I worked, I thought often of my own parents and how bereft and sad I felt in the days after their deaths.
The legend maintains that the Sargasso Sea derelicts are found shipshape but otherwise bereft of a living soul.
bereft of hope
‘Coming to the place where he lived for so long, you feel something,’ he added, glancing around the two roughly hewn chambers, bereft of any potential creature comfort.
Widows, bereft parents, and odd widower - you could always count on seeing a few of them sitting by a grave.
To his bereft family and friends in the racing fraternity we offer our condolences for their great loss and our appreciation for the memories of this brave young man.
But many computers are concentrated in labs or classrooms used to teach computer skills, leaving regular classrooms bereft.
This foolish and contemptible product of years wasted in mining the shafts of indignation has been published by the cow-besieged, basketball-sotted sleep-away camp for hick bourgeois offspring, Indiana University, under the aegis of its University Press, a traditional dumping ground for academic deadwood so bereft of talent, intelligence, and endeavor as to be useless even in the dull precincts of midwestern state college classrooms. P.J. O’Wowser
Lee also orchestrates some magnificent horizontal sweeps at the apron of the stage but as they become more repetitious, they are rendered bereft of the grandeur initially achieved.
In the original, the poem is terse, rendering language itself bereft. The Times Literary Supplement
The device of an officer's letter handwritten to a bereft mother was the most dramatic part of the programme. Times, Sunday Times
Not so no-drama-Obama who evinces an imperturbable cool utterly bereft of inner trauma. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: How Obama Lost His Magic

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