The phrase "bereft for" can be used in written English, but it may sound archaic or poetic.
It means to feel a longing or lack for something that is gone or lost. It can also be used to describe a sense of emptiness or despair. Example: After her husband passed away, she was bereft for the love and companionship they shared for over 50 years. Another example: The town was bereft for a proper grocery store, as the only one had closed down and left the residents with limited options for buying food.
I feel bereft for a moment, as if an appendage has fallen in the john.
You are wrong to expect that a death in the family will leave you bereft for year upon year, forever and ever.
A family grieving its six-figure inheritance will not be any less bereft for knowing that losses may also have been suffered by the heirs of the singer and composer John Denver and the motion picture legend Irving Thalberg.
"I looked upon my devastated teammates in the heartless, pitiless wreckage of their season which had barely begun," Conroy writes, "and they were too bereft for bitterness and too outcast for hope.
Not just those who fell in no man's land, or in desperately ingenious attempts to escape by zip-wire, tunnel, even submarine, but the families and friends and colleagues rent and bereft for 28 long years.
We don't know this either, and so we are left feeling bereft for Dinah, and uncertain about the actions of her brothers.
Feminists have found traditional moral philosophy suspect for inflating typical male behaviors into paradigmatic moral actions and traditional political philosophy equally suspect for being bereft of remedies for the moral and political challenges posed by such biased and pretextual exclusion.
Not only is is relatively easy to do so, but a waning gibbous Moon means a night sky bereft of moonlight for the next week, so perfect for general stargazing.
The Demons have been so bereft of confidence for so long that you can't begrudge Dawes for trying to pump his team-mates up.
He is bereft of ideas for creating jobs in the here and now.
"Manhattan is bereft of rooms for people 18 to 35," Mr. Adler said.
