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

And, all along the woodland where I stray, I think of thee, and Nature keeps me gay, And sorrow soothes the soul it would bereave.

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Eric Mackay

“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

Gaspard, Monica, Domestics, &c. with torches, enter at the moment and surround the baron, whose surprise bereaves him of power to resist.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter

Proudly he shews, with many a smile elate, The scrambling subjects of the private plate While Time their actions and their names bereaves, They grin for ever in the guarded leaves.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

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

The state governor, Angelo Ngot Mayar, sent his condolences to bereaved families and directed security agencies to evacuate the wounded.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Ferguson makes reference to the report and said that "when you look at what happened, bereaved families and other families during the pandemic, guidance completely failed us during the pandemic".

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Sir Geoffrey has written to Cabinet Office Minister Louise Haigh to urge the government to confirm the bereaved families affected will not face this "unjust financial penalty".

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

Or how about this one: The bereaved family covered the mirrors as a reflection of its grief.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Her director, who seems preoccupied with grass and trees and skies at the expense of people, has made a film almost completely bereft of wit, which is like a Star Wars movie without laser guns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

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

Earl Spencer describes his opposition to the boys having to walk behind the coffin at their mother's funeral - and he talks of "how tiny, and slight, and bereft, Harry looked".

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 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

I was tired suddenly of feeling so bereft, so unmoored by sadness.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

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

Men tell us that the stars it knows are leaving Our onward rolling globe, and in their place New constellations rise—is death bereaving The old earth, too, of each familiar face?

From Point Lace and Diamonds by Francis Day

But she would not have cared for these things; while bereaving himself, he would have enriched her not at all.

From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Flower in particular she followed round so constantly and persistently that the young girl began to wonder if Mrs. Cameron seriously and really intended to punish her, by now bereaving her of her senses.

From Polly A New-Fashioned Girl by L. T. Meade