How to Use bereaved in a Sentence

bereaved

adjective

• The bereaved mothers used tools to fend off flies [BBC].
  — Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2010
• There are stages of grief that are supposed to lead the bereaved to a new normal.
  — Jean Marie Brown, star-telegram.com, 11 May 2017
• Each loss left an army of bereaved parents livid, and none more than the Capeloutos.
  — Zachary Siegel, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
• Then came the Angel of death before the due date and left his wife and sons bereaved.
  — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 9 July 2019
• My thoughts are with the bereaved families and prayers with the injured.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2019
• More appalling than the scale of death was the spectacle of the bereaved survivors.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2017
• All across the country, people felt bereaved and shocked.
  — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 20 Feb. 2017
• The bereaved person’s head and heart are on a roller coaster of emotions, and they should be given space to process their grief.
  — Gloria Horsley, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• Something must be done about the deplorable way the system treats bereaved parents.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
• Yamen teamed up with other bereaved mothers in Iowa to create the Count the Kicks program.
  — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2019
• Now, a bereaved mother asks how California has the strictest gun laws in the country.
  — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• Do be certain, however, that the bereaved is aware of your presence.
  — Joyce Wadler, New York Times, 10 May 2017
• The multi-faith service remembered those who lost their lives in the tragedy, and was attended by the bereaved and survivors.
  — Kate Storey, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 May 2018
• For starters, this is the Bible Belt, so many of us view the separation between the bereaved and the departed as a temporary state.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• For starters, this is the Bible Belt, so many of us view the separation between the bereaved and the departed as a temporary state.
  — Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2016
• Her bereaved husband, Thomas, moved to Connecticut with their children and set up shop on the Jeremy.
  — Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2017
• Her bereaved husband, Thomas, moved to Connecticut with their children and set up shop on the Jeremy.
  — Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2017
• Miss Manners doesn’t wonder that the bereaved are confused, and may not be up to orchestrating such events.
  — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 15 July 2019
• Some bereaved people, though—about 10 percent, according to the research—will be in severe grief for six months or longer.
  — Hilda Bastian, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2022
• The abduction of the three Israeli boys is barely mentioned, and their equally bereaved parents not at all.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• There still remains a slight possibility that he was made prisoner but this is a faint hope for the bereaved mother to cling to.
  — Kitty Conley, Post-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2017
• The excellent Gugu Mbatha-Raw plays Ava, a bereaved mother whose husband is far below on the earth’s surface.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 6 Feb. 2018
• Ergo, Peter must best the city’s fiercest warrior in single combat, fly and make a bereaved countess laugh for the first time since her brother died in battle.
  — Michael Nordine, Variety, 15 Mar. 2023
• Soon after the death of her sister Phyllis, the wife of a senior official in India, Lawrence agreed to marry her bereaved brother-in-law.
  — David Gilmour, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
• One bereaved mother, whose baby boy died just 16 hours after birth, is sharing how she was comforted with the help of a Cuddle Cot.
  — Kelly O'Sullivan, Woman's Day, 3 Mar. 2017
• The bereaved parents and husband of Alice Gruppioni sued the city of Los Angeles after her death.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, latimes.com, 5 June 2018
• But five years later, there’s little closure for Khashoggi and his bereaved relatives and friends.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• One of the bereaved fathers has said the shooting continued for several minutes.
  — Washington Post, 4 July 2017
• Is the financial aspect of this important enough to you to justify hurting your bereaved friend’s feelings by emphasizing that her status among you has changed?
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
• At a family dinner between the two bereaved families, Emma finds the mysterious puzzle box amidst her brother's belongings and summons Steven back to the mortal realm.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024