Sentence examples for lonely bereft from inspiring English sources
(When Angela does chant a short number in the night club, she sounds flat and lonely, bereft of brass and strings).
My profound reluctance to ask passersby for help feels not unlike my aversion to calling friends when I'm needful in other ways, those times when I'm feeling sad, lost, lonely, bereft.
Havrilesky's whole response ― which draws heavily on her response to her own dad's death during her 20s ― reads like a cool tonic to the lonely, bereft soul.
She was a poor little orphan girl, lonely and bereft, yet filming made her feel alive.
Mr. Merritt understands how it feels to be lonely and bereft, observing love as one of its casualties.
It's a huge relief if someone talks back to you in a way that gets your head running.' I don't quite know how seriously to take this vision of lonely rooms, bereft of company, especially as, when the interview ends, we discover we have mutual friends and she enthuses about them and jolly party games they've played.
And we in Los Angeles, abandoned without a plan, are lonely and bereft.
After I finished it, I felt relieved to be back on my familiar lonely turf — spiritually bereft, perhaps, but safely beyond the din of battle.
Sonia Orwell, an editor who was married to George Orwell for just over three months, was "a romantic without the emotional resilience to make romance the mainstay of her life". Possessed by nostalgia, she became "a woman aged before her time, lonely, drunken, and bereft". Lord is a writer of considerable self-awareness.
For a split second, the pets appear bereft and lonely, but they quickly shake it off and the fun begins.
