Bereft is an English word with synonyms like lovelorn or unloved. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Bereft in a sentence
Bereft meaning
simple past and past participle of bereave
Synonyms of Bereft
Using Bereft
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of bereave
- Useful related words include: lovelorn, unbeloved, unloved, bereaved.
- In the example corpus, bereft often appears in combinations such as: bereft of, is bereft, was bereft.
Context around Bereft
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bereft
- In this selection, "bereft" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, squad, looked, purposefully, moment, section and pay stand out and add context to how "bereft" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a squad bereft of goals and again looked bereft of ideas. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bereft" sits close to words such as abbotsford, adkins and adventist, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bereft
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This has left bereft of inventory. (6 words)
The lobby was dim and bereft of life. (8 words)
Without access to information, freedom is bereft of effectiveness. (9 words)
He’s a shadow of what he once was, however impressive or not you judge that to be — bereft even of the high-energy cunning that marked the true highlight of his career, his evisceration of in the 2012 veep debate. (41 words)
The board voted unanimously to reinstate the scholarship of Calida Ambrose, who is entering her senior year at UVI after the death of her father in 2020 left her bereft and unable to focus on her studies. (37 words)
First of all, the public facts in the case remain vague; at present we simply have no idea what Lee was doing walking alone through a bereft section of downtown at 2.30 in the morning. (36 words)
Didn't they teach you how to spell bereft in 2nd grade last year? (14 words)
Is our nation so bereft of leaders that its legislature can only be drawn from a handful of political families? (20 words)
Example sentences (20)
A squad bereft of goals and with a suspect defence was always going to struggle.
At Headingley, Australia again looked bereft of ideas as Stokes and Mark Wood started belting them into the stands, making a first-innings lead evaporate in a way that ultimately turned the match.
But again, there was great significance in this as well, as the jokes were to commemorate Iambe, the servant who tried to cheer up Demeter when she was bereft over the loss of Persephone.
But at this bereft moment in time, I can’t think of a single one in any genre or subgenre of popular music who surpassed Bennett in the sheer, unfettered expression of hope.
But this soft-focus stab at Marlowe is bereft of charisma and his clumsy attempts at roughhouse fail in the worst way by being laughable.
First of all, the public facts in the case remain vague; at present we simply have no idea what Lee was doing walking alone through a bereft section of downtown at 2.30 in the morning.
The board voted unanimously to reinstate the scholarship of Calida Ambrose, who is entering her senior year at UVI after the death of her father in 2020 left her bereft and unable to focus on her studies.
The lobby was dim and bereft of life.
The truth is Mele Kyari is bereft of ideas and is grossly incompetent.
They are matched only by a civic culture that is under siege by the apostles of neoliberalism promoting privatization, consumerism, anti-intellectualism and a brutal market ideology purposefully bereft of any sense of social responsibility.
This has left bereft of inventory.
With a rich and cultural heritage lending the town a distinctive visage, the new plans have been described as leaving the town “sterile” and “bereft of atmosphere”.
Without access to information, freedom is bereft of effectiveness.
And during its much-discussed two-week carriage war with Disney, Charter Communications sent football-bereft pay TV customers to YouTube TV, as well.
Didn't they teach you how to spell bereft in 2nd grade last year?
He’s a shadow of what he once was, however impressive or not you judge that to be — bereft even of the high-energy cunning that marked the true highlight of his career, his evisceration of in the 2012 veep debate.
Indeed, by 2011, most people engaged on India’s farms were essentially wage labourers, bereft of taking a call on cultivation.
Is our nation so bereft of leaders that its legislature can only be drawn from a handful of political families?
It is obvious that these people, including their puppets in the media, are bereft of commonsense.
It’s hard to think of a time when the Democratic Party was more bereft of real leaders.
Common combinations with bereft
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- bereft of 66×
- is bereft 8×
- was bereft 6×
- and bereft 6×
- bereft and 5×
- so bereft 5×
- completely bereft 3×
- left bereft 3×
- him bereft 3×
- her bereft 2×