Sample sentences for BEREFT - verbalworkout.com

(click/touch triangles for details)

Definition

lacking something that is desired

or:

suffered great sadness because of loss or lack of something expected or strongly desired

or:

deprived (taken away something that is desired)

More rarely, bereft can also be used like bereaved to refer to someone who is sad over the death of a loved one.

She is bereft of hope.

bereft = lacking (something desired)

Her husband's death left her bereft.

bereft = greatly saddened by a loss

The country is bereft of natural borders.

bereft = lacking (something desired)

When a person drinks seawater, the kidneys must generate urine to flush the salt away, but to do so, they need more water than is contained in the seawater itself, so the body pulls water from its cells. Bereft of water, the cells begin to fail.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

bereft = lacking

A pale light, rising in the outer air, fell straight upon the bed; and on it, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man.
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

bereft = sad for something lacking

Madam, you have bereft me of all words,
William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice

bereft = deprived (taken from)

However, perhaps the answer lies not in a morally bereft man, but in the corrupted ideals of an entire faction.
Veronica Roth -- Divergent

bereft = lacking (something that is desired)

Yes, I felt stunned and bereft for myself and especially for Jai, who couldn't stop crying.
Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture

bereft = full of sorrow because of loss

And the Bishop too had said that men did not understand this riddle, why a young man so full of promise was cut off in his youth, why a woman was widowed and children were orphaned, why a country was bereft of one who might have served it greatly.
Alan Paton -- Cry, the Beloved Country

bereft = deprived (something desired was taken away)

Bereft of his dignity, Louie had come home to a life lost in darkness, and had dashed himself against the memory of the Bird.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

bereft = deprived

Sadly, the bridge is already under insurgent control due to questionable strategizing by my bereft cohort.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

bereft = sad or lacking something needed

Lady you bereft me of all words
William Shakespeare
a passion of anger at my uncle, that once more bereft me of my senses.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
General Douglas MacArthur
bereft of the presence of his old friends
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
He gets up and I stare after him in a daze, my hand all cold and bereft.
Sophie Kinsella -- Confessoins of a Shopaholic
The farmyards and even the hilltops look a little more fertile, a little less bereft of soil and trees.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Church lies bereft', Alone, desecrated, desolated, and the hea then shall build on the ruins, Their world without God, I see it.
T.S. Eliot -- Murder in the Cathedral
She leaned against Dad, sounding bereft.
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
A leader bereft of followers.
Susan Ee -- Angelfall

Dictionary / pronunciation — Google^®Dictionary list — Onelook.com^®

Search for other examples by interest

Interest — Source