Grieving from deprivation

Usage examples of bereft.

The French spread victorious across the land, and these Riflemen were bereft and frightened.

There had been a time when the company of such men had been his life and pleasure, but now, because he was an officer, he was bereft of such companionship.

In the empty space where it had been, the lit He calico cat sat alone, looking bereft and forsaken.

Now she found it lacking, an oddly empty, circumscribed happiness bound up in self-indulgence and personal gratification, bereft of interest in or concern for others, ultimately puzzling and somehow sad.

Exhausted, sullen, and bereft for the moment of any other plan, the conjurer and the bird continued their journey.

Together they had formed an odd company, bereft of any real knowledge of their past, forced to begin life anew in a world about which they knew almost nothing.

The rest, bereft of the promised protection of the Gorse and its magic, had no interest in a fight.

Christian duty to visit with those who are lonely and bereft in their time of need.

He sputtered threats and cursed steadily as Plover and I rounded up all the shoppers, ordered them to abandon their carts in mid-aisle, and sent them away bereft of bargains.

I tried to assign Buzz a motive as I drove down the road to his house, but I was as bereft of inspiration as I was of cool air from the pisspoor air conditioner.

He wondered who it was, wondered why it travelled alone, bereft of clan and kin.

Dishonoured by its own cowardice, bereft of dignity, a mother no longer.

The encampment was a shambles, bereft of organization, sloppily prepared and seriously undermanned.

Mourning among the Rhivi and Barghast, bereft voices rising into the darkness.

An army sworn to a god bereft of its power was, as far as Itkovian was concerned, no different from any other band of mercenaries: a collection of misfits and a scattering of professional soldiers.