bereft
Example Sentences
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The narrator’s mother dies giving birth to his brother, and his father quickly remarries, leaving the narrator, only 10 years old, confused and bereft.
Mill closures have left parts of the South bereft of buyers for the culled pulpwood.
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
When bereft, she even manages to sadly tip-tap her tiny feet up a staircase.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
