Sentence examples for bereft in this from inspiring English sources

"That would leave Star completely bereft in this part of the world," said Tom Ballantyne, chief correspondent in Sydney for Orient Aviation magazine.

Wales, who face the two-time champions at Twickenham on Saturday afternoon, are hardly bereft in this department: Luke Charteris and the mighty Alun Wyn Jones demand to be taken seriously.

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

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

Shortly after her affair with theatre director Deborah Warner ended in 2007, Jeanette Winterson found herself repeatedly sitting alone and bereft in the fields near her Cotswolds home.

You will be getting to know these people very well in Mr. Englund's novelistic telling, and this dramatis personae will function as your GPS, a beacon during those few moments when, like one of his men and women, you are confused and bereft in the fog of war.

Later, however, he discovers that his parents and two brothers are dead; soon, he is separated from the boys as well, left to wander alone and bereft in the hostile bush, scavenging for food.

It should be no surprise that the lack of a system of effective professional education leaves our country's teachers -- and thus, their students -- bereft in the wake of ambitious reform efforts.

In the five years since his second studio album, "FutureSex/LoveSounds," Timberlake fans have grown increasingly bereft in the absence of their pop hero, and there is no clear end in sight.

This is not the Colts' leaving their fans bereft in Baltimore in the middle of the night for Indianapolis or the Dodgers' tearing out a million Brooklyn hearts as they were uprooted to Los Angeles.

The death, he said, left him bereft in ways he had never imagined possible, and his mother's departure hurts to this day.