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Example sentences for: bereft

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But the subsequent dismantling of the Soviet Union suddenly left Cuba bereft of food, oil, and hard currency.
A yawning gap in the lineup of military officers; a face that failed to match the body attached to it; a face whose shading did not match that of the faces on either side; an elbow marooned in space, bereft of other body parts--such things could just pass for evidence of ineptitude.
Fortunately, I don't read papers where he appears, but his work is trite, appallingly apolitical, and graphically bereft of any character whatsoever.
When a widow, bereft of her husband, and deep in his debts, sought to marry anew, she must first slough off his obligations.
Poor Hick, bereft of career, living in a perpetual state of low-intensity jiltedness ("Miss you so much," runs the typical Eleanor letter, "but you'd hate it here so don't come "), traveling the barrooms of the country as Eleanor's eyes and ears, remains for me the hero of the book.