Sentence examples for bereft this from inspiring English sources

Every socialist, active trade unionist and progressive campaigner of the last 60 years or more will be bereft this morning, since their lives will have been entwined with Tony Benn's.

Mr. Mahbuba was bereft this afternoon because he had just received word that his 27-year-old nephew, Maher Al-Yasser, who went to Iraq 10 days ago, had been killed by Baath Party members in Najaf.

All of us at Carnegie Hall feel personally bereft by this sudden and unexpected loss.

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

We are truly bereft, that this reticent, kindly man with the ferocious work ethic and superhuman facility will write for us no more.

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

All of us at Carnegie Hall feel personally bereft by this loss, for Wally's family was all encompassing, and his generosity was limitless and unstinting.

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.

Some thirteen hundred years later, the poet, politician, and philosopher Dante Alighieri, banished from his native Florence and thus largely bereft of this world's goods, was nevertheless having trouble threading the eye of that needle.

Fawcett's family issued a statement following the snub declaring they were "deeply saddened" and "bereft with this exclusion of such an international icon who inspired so many for so many reasons".

Fans of the NBC musical comedy-drama "Smash" — they were out there, and you know who you are — were bereft when this ratings-challenged series was canceled last spring, leaving audiences forever in the dark about the future of its roster of fictional Broadway stars and striving performers.