BEREFT in a Sentence

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Example sentences for BEREFT, such as:

1. The team now seems bereft of inspiration.
2. The foolish gambler soon found himself bereft of funds.
3. At this, in my flurry and confusion, some hostile god bereft me of my senses.
4. Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its hair.

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 Meanings and Examples of BEREFT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bereft
 a.  deprived of; lacking; desolate because of loss
Classic Sentence:
1  A week after the wedding Charles left to join Colonel Wade Hampton, and two weeks later Ashley and the Troop departed, leaving the whole County bereft.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  But these ignominies and dangers were as nothing compared with the peril of white women, many bereft by the war of male protection, who lived alone in the outlying districts and on lonely roads.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  At this, in my flurry and confusion, some hostile god bereft me of my senses.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
4  Scarcely had he spoken thus, when on the mountain top we see shepherding his flocks a vast moving mass, Polyphemus himself seeking the shores he knew, a horror ominous, shapeless, huge, bereft of sight.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
5  This appalling sight almost bereft me of my senses, and finding that I could no longer be of service to any one in the house, my only desire was to fly.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood.
6  Like a lioness caught in the toils with huntsmen hemming her in on every side she thought and thought till she sank into a slumber, and lay on her bed bereft of thought and motion.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IV
7  Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its hair.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
Example Sentence:
1  The foolish gambler soon found himself bereft of funds.
2  The team now seems bereft of inspiration.