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Example sentences for: bereft

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When a widow, bereft of her husband, and deep in his debts, sought to marry anew, she must first slough off his obligations.
But the subsequent dismantling of the Soviet Union suddenly left Cuba bereft of food, oil, and hard currency.
And the Republican Party is bereft of ideas?
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.
Fortunately, I don't read papers where he appears, but his work is trite, appallingly apolitical, and graphically bereft of any character whatsoever.