bereave
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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
But would you bereave me of the last badge of my respectability?
From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith
“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
There is an immense chain of intermediation, extending from center to extremes, which bereaves every agency of all freedom and character.
From Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Greeks, who always had a reason for everything, ascribed the nameless dread, the sudden and unaccountable fear, which bereaves men of manhood and reason, to the presence of a god.
From His Sombre Rivals by Edward Payson Roe
Their departure bereaves us, but, all in all, it must be accounted a blessing.
From The Foot-path Way by Bradford Torrey
The head of a major review of maternity services has reassured bereaved parents their voices will be heard as part of her work.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
In many cases, the bereaved don’t attend weddings or celebrations for up to a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Questioned by Jesse Nicholls, representing the bereaved family, Dr Latham said Uddin "felt a sense of injustice" about being branded a terrorist.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
The BBC has been speaking to some families in which bereaved relatives were married.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
As if no one knew what to do in the face of such tragedy except to make the heaviest, heartiest, most prosaic dish they could, to give the bereaved something solid to hold on to.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
Desmond Wilcox died in 2000 leaving Rantzen bereft.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Among the major problems is the lead performance of Mr. Pattinson, who gives us a greasy, erratic character bereft of the charm, smarm and rounded baritone that TV newsmen rely on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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
The Greeks had the advantage in force but the Persians could block their passage, harass them or leave them bereft of food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
“Add that to mob dynamics, and you get a mob that will keep taking until you’re just as bereft as they are.”
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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
Had the Italian National Council, bereaving themselves of Italian bayonets, held a real plebiscite—secret or otherwise—the result would doubtless have given them pain, but no surprise....
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Henry Baerlein
My heart is frequently credulous, and is almost raised, by her bewitching eloquence, to the belief that, by bereaving her of friends and property, I confer on her a benefit.
From Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown
A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason, and traversing its work.
From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter
