bereft

in a sentence

They passed miles of naked grapevines, stripped of their harvest and bereft of their leaves.  (source) Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising, 2000

Sadly, the bridge is already under insurgent control due to questionable strategizing by my bereft cohort.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

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.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

However, perhaps the answer lies not in a morally bereft man, but in the corrupted ideals of an entire faction.  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

But come on, Nazi symbols are not totally bereft of meaning.  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

Vittoria knew there was logic somewhere in Kohler's argument, but she also knew that logic, by definition, was bereft of moral responsibility.  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

Yes, I felt stunned and bereft for myself and especially for Jai, who couldn't stop crying.  (source) Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture, 2008

Generic, bereft of trees, with a sandbox that's always full of animal feces; it is utterly un-Twainy.  (source) Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 2012

A leader bereft of followers.  (source) Susan Ee, Angelfall, 2012

I think about that, and the way he used to be the way they used to be, the way I imagined them to be—and I feel bereft.  (source) Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train, 2015

They would advance, and die, largely bereft of their nation's good wishes or sympathy.  (source) James Bradley, Flags of Our Fathers, 2000

I feel singled out, but also bereft.  (source) Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, 1988

To Joia, the problem wasn't that Deo got upset at the way patents on drugs, for instance, left the indigent sick of black Africa bereft of modern medicine.  (source) Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains, 2009