Sentence examples for bereft that from inspiring English sources

The town is proud of him, yet feels bereft that he is no longer practicing.

I tell my imaginary Uncle Milt I'm bereft that I can't join him for Thanksgiving.

Mr. Allman is bereft that his brother missed most of the band's ride.

It's so artistically bereft that only a belief in a higher power could explain its existence.

At the end of 838 blinding, high-octane pages, I was bereft that there weren't 838 more.

Mr Saatchi told Isleworth Crown Court: "I'm utterly bereft that this private email to Nigella has come back to haunt us both.

When Mr. Bush took the microphone, he praised the way in which he said Ms. Norton and others in his administration were bringing "some common sense to Washington," as if the city were usually bereft of that.

That is a great palliative, while inside we are all beginning to feel grief and sadness and the bereft feeling that will come all too soon when we turn off the lights in December.

Bereft of that alternative, what remains?

And I felt a bit bereft at that point.

"I felt bereft of that line of defense against age, death, all those big issues," she said.