Sentence examples for bereft in from inspiring English sources

Arty found himself bereft in a strange land.

The swing has been absent and the Angels bereft in the first month of the season.

So the public is bereft in its understanding of some of the good things".

Down below, a mother (Susan Bickley) ululates as the horror dawns, then sits centre stage, bereft, in unforgettable elegy.

To squander (if that is the word) our given resources on one art leaves us proportionately bereft in others.

The loss served as confirmation that a team constructed over more than a decade to enhance and exploit Manning's brilliance risks being bereft in his absence.

Already known for setting global trends, the retail scene here continues to evolve, with dashing new home stores opening along Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill, shops rising on the previously bereft Myrtle Avenue in Fort Greene, and innovative clothing boutiques going toe-to-toe with — and besting — the chains popping up in Williamsburg.

While he displays exuberance in "Don Quixote," he can be thrillingly solemn as the bereft Albrecht in "Giselle".

Both camps proceeded to wrap the poet in legends that stress her pathos: where Dickinson legend built up a bereft Emily in a dimity apron turning away the one and only man she loved, Todd legend built up a pitiful Emily "hurt" by her "cruel" sister-in-law, Susan Dickinson.

It held eerie, bereft songs in a paradoxically pretty orchestral haze: "Nothing can hurt me," Mr. Chilton sang.

The theological torment of Francisco, the bereft juggler in "The Sanctuary Lamp," pointed an accusatory finger at the church when few other dramatists could be so bold.