Sentence examples for pretty bereft from inspiring English sources
"It's been a brand that has been pretty bereft of investment," said David Allmark, executive vice president of Mattel's Fisher-Price brands.
For those who don't get a kick out of the live valuation of a George III mahogany pedestal desk on Antiques Roadshow, the gradual demise of a woman with bipolar disorder in Homeland, or the psychological mauling of a sub-standard pub singer on The X Factor, then Sunday nights have probably been pretty bereft of joy in recent years.
Windows RT is launching fairly bereft of apps.
TOKYO Conventional wisdom held that the deep-seafloor was pretty much bereft of life at the time marine biologist J. Frederick Grassle rode the Alvin submersible to examine newly discovered hydrothermal vents near the Galapagos Islands in 1979.
This Oprah boomlet is a pretty good window into how bereft of leadership the Democratic party is at this point.
It held eerie, bereft songs in a paradoxically pretty orchestral haze: "Nothing can hurt me," Mr. Chilton sang.
If you find yourself bereft of a ready answer, you're in pretty good company.
Our progress down the snowy road home isn't pretty, but we get there, to a chalet that feels eerily bereft without our hosts.
The remaining stores had become so run down, so bereft of merchandise, so understaffed and so overwhelmingly depressing that consumers are going to need some pretty compelling reasons to come back.
The rest of the island is still pretty weak.Bereft of the old subsidies, the small construction firms are turning themselves into farmers, service providers, anything that will help them survive.
