Sentence examples for bereft in a from inspiring English sources

Arty found himself bereft in a strange land.

Another result is that you feel bereft, in a very real sense, if it's not there; the painting is now on loan until next spring.

This new reality has left fashion feeling bereft, in a way that goes beyond backing the losing candidate and to the core of the industry's identity.

Coco's impotent lover eventually dies of a heroin overdose and her German lover returns to his homeland, leaving her bereft in a city of vanity and desire.

Which parent has not watched anxiously over a sleeping son or daughter, their small, fragile form tucked up in the bedclothes, and not fought to suppress the awful imagining of "what if?" Which child has not looked at a mother and father and imagined themselves as an orphan, alone and bereft in a world full of hostile strangers?

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Still other finds included a black rotary telephone bearing the number CI 8-1296 thad had mysteriously made its way to Brooklyn from City Island in the north Bronx, and a small doll with stringy blond hair and a missing foot — "wounded and bereft in an interesting way," said Ms. Lutz, who keeps the doll on her bed.

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

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.

Dunn grew up culturally bereft in the nineteen-eighties, but parlayed a modest knowledge of pop music into a job at Rolling Stone.

I heard about this from one of Todd's few friends, Thomas, a musician manqué with a goatee who'd moved to Boston a few years before (leaving Todd all the more bereft in Oklahoma City).