Sentence examples for bereft my from inspiring English sources
Bereft, my father and I have taken to going to Irish and Italian bars -- not to drink but to watch English and Italian games beamed onto crude satellite dishes that frequently conk out halfway through a telecast, resulting in scenes of grown men throwing scones and cannoli and occasionally each other at the screen.
I was bereft, my face hot with tears.
Bereft, my friend went back to India and stayed with the guru's principal disciple, and one day the disciple said, "Do you want to see the precious thing the guru left for me?" Then he pulled out something wrapped in an old Indian cloth and ceremoniously uncovered a beaten-up pot.
Bereft at my determination to be cheerful and my reluctance to get on with grim Latin subjunctives, he wrote: "Charm alone will not get him through".
Will my kids hate me for leaving them for so long, bereft of my hugs?
I was cracking up, burned out, and bereft because my nearest Indian restaurant was 40 miles away.
But even for me, bereft of my family, the arrangement is not without some perks.
As I walked home alone later, I felt bereft beyond my normal sadness at leaving the children.
On the other hand, I was bereft of my Havanas, which would have been a lot easier to bring in undetected in the crush at the customs stations at Kennedy.
I mean, as a person who would be inclined to sing a keening aria before plunging a dagger into my bereft maternal bosom about the fact that my son opted to leave the house and play Settlers of Catan with his friends instead of watching the weird scientology documentary with his father and me, I can imagine that famous writers have felt compelled to embellish some sorry circumstances.
