bereave

Half of our crew were locals, so we offered them to take time off to bereave should they choose to.

From Salon ● May 12, 2023

Yet, when discretion doth bereave The plaints that they should utter,Then thy discretion may perceive That silence is a suitor.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2012

Life after college can feel like a desperate and depressing limbo where recent grads bereave the loss of carefree times when they aren’t scouring Craigslist for employment.

From Washington Post

"Luther never intended to bereave the church of her mystery," says one Sammlung theologian.

From Time Magazine Archive

She only replied, that she received her royal character from the hands of the Almighty, and no earthly power was ever able to bereave her of it.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

“It utterly bereaves me to pass on the news that I have been advised by my medical team here in the UK to cancel my upcoming USA book tour,” Moore wrote on Instagram.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023

Queen Elizabeth II will be seated alone as she bereaves the death of her husband of 73 years, Prince Philip, at his funeral on Saturday.

From Fox News ● Apr. 16, 2021

The storm which bereaves us of our best affections passes over; the whirlwind, the thunder, and the shower, desolating our harvest of expected joys; but the sun bursts forth again.

From Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers by Susanna Moodie

Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett

But a separation from our place, the close of a particular career of duty, shuts the book, bereaves us of this hope, and leaves us only to lament how little has been done.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

Amnesty's Nigeria director, Isa Sanusi, told BBC News on Saturday that the NGO had spoken to some of the bereaved families who said up to 50 people had died.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Jamie said NHS Lothian underestimated how difficult it could be for bereaved parents to navigate the complaints process.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

According to his children, Jean and Ken, he felt compelled to do something for the bereaved families who had lost their sons and daughters.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

"The Prime Minister extends his condolences to the bereaved families and prays for them to have the strength and patience to bear this irreparable loss," the statement said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

There was nobody to do it except Uncle O. V., and he was the bereaved too.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

Think twice before you post on a parents' group Feeling anxious, bereft or excluded is normal, but those feelings don't always require action.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

So bereft is the ideas cupboard that even notoriously mediocre 1990s films are being summoned back to life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Equally shattering is a cue surging through a long scene bereft of dialogue, where Alex discovers a tampered-with wine bottle and realizes that he is married to a spy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

But warmer oceans are also often bereft of the high-energy prey these juvenile salmon need for rapid growth when they reach the saltwater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Homo sapiens long preferred to view itself as set apart from animals, an orphan bereft of family, lacking siblings or cousins, and most importantly, without parents.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Even those who are still alive are forced to spend parts of their existence inadvertently bereaving the death of a life they were promised.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025

Culkin, 39, pressed that the death of Dakota – whose nickname was Cody – hit everyone in their family differently and they all were "torn up inside" while bereaving the accident.

From Fox News ● Oct. 6, 2021

He sees a solitary one, absolutely alone, without kith or kin dependent on him, and yet he toils on, "bereaving his soul of good" as unceasingly as when he first started in life.

From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Frederick Charles Jennings

Bereave, bereft or bereaved, bereaving, bereft or bereaved.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

But the bereaving day renders a boy destitute of his contemporaries; he is ever dejected, and his cheeks are bedewed with tears.

From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Theodore Alois Buckley