Sentence examples for bereft me from inspiring English sources
"When they got married, Mike said to me, he was in the grip of feelings 'beyond any happiness he had ever dreamed of.' He told me more than once that his favorite line in Shakespeare was 'You have bereft me of all words, lady.' Because when he was with Jude, he knew the full extent of what Shakespeare was saying".
He later wrote that he would never think of marrying her, "unless the Lord had entirely bereft me of my wits".
"It has been rigged to tarnish my name by bodies I know well and who for me are bereft of all credibility or legitimacy".
That I could cope with, whereas anything more formula-specific had me gazing bereft at 50s American scientists – square-jawed, clean-cut, collectively mad as a giggle of headless ferrets – scrawling urgently on blackboards.
I suddenly felt bereft without Bridget to keep me company.
Although it was a show of his undying love for me, I was bereft both at the physical discomfort and the idea that someone other than my big sister would want to physically harm me.
On days when I was bereft of all self-worth, I could tell he still saw me in a different light.
Part of me knew such sentiment was maudlin and all for myself the bereft little brother who could have tried harder, etc.—so I'd take a deep breath and think of other things.
Maybe it would be one day before I felt bereft of joy and confused by a circumstance in my life that blindsided me.
She looked ruined, bereft.
