Sentence examples for long bereft from inspiring English sources

DAMASCUS, Syria — The Street Called Straight, long bereft of its bustle, was finally crowded again.

To a television world long bereft of the annual holiday cheer spread by a Como or a Crosby comes an unlikely new Christmas champion: Colbert.

Privately, however, prosecutors must have been livid that the southern Sudan government let the prime suspect go.Long bereft of popular support, Mr Kony has survived since the mid-1990s theough the patronage of the Sudanese government in Khartoum, which used him to help fight its own southern rebels.

Will my kids hate me for leaving them for so long, bereft of my hugs?

Soon "Saturday Night Live" will be, as it has been for so long now, bereft of material.

In the thickest, sweatiest hours of the day, 10 or 20 people at a time slip into the long, shallow, oar-powered boats, bereft of their graceful dragon heads and tails.

Not just those who fell in no man's land, or in desperately ingenious attempts to escape by zip-wire, tunnel, even submarine, but the families and friends and colleagues rent and bereft for 28 long years.

And on the long journey home, after being bereft for half the way, I watch my friend and the white dog walking in front of me and I smile.

But for a long time, she said, "I was bereft".

Their long march had left the 68th bereft of supplies and low on rations.

But he will remain fundamentally bereft of dignity so long as he is living on someone else's dime.