bereft
Example Sentences
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What Lululemon is missing, he suggested, is someone like himself: “A company bereft of a visionary loses its singular voice for product and long-term strategy.”
Then they stood on the lawn, looking bereft.
From Los Angeles Times
The fragile screen separating savvy high-flyer and bereft sufferer cracks, irrevocably.
From Washington Post
Why were there so many leopards in this agricultural landscape, which was bereft of wild herbivores for them to feed on?
From Scientific American
Lloyd Webber said he was “totally bereft” after his son died days later.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
