Which preposition to use with bereft
Hither and thither she was borne, a creature bereft of volition.
Friend PUNCHINELLO: Thee has doubtless sorrowed, in spite of thy motley, with those bereft at Richmond.
Twice had he been married, and twice bereft by death when he met my mother, Tamsen Eustis Dozier, then a widow, whom he married May 24, 1839.
If such the force of grief In an old hermit parted from his nursling, What anguish must the stricken parent feel Bereft for ever of an only daughter.
Their father did not require companionship, and the daughters grew out of childhood into girlhood bereft in a singular manner of such society as would have been natural to their age, sex and station.