How to Use bereaved in a Sentence

bereaved

adjective
  • 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
  • My thoughts are with the bereaved families and prayers with the injured.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2019
  • 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
  • More appalling than the scale of death was the spectacle of the bereaved survivors.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Something must be done about the deplorable way the system treats bereaved parents.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
  • Do be certain, however, that the bereaved is aware of your presence.
    — Joyce Wadler, New York Times, 10 May 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
  • Now, a bereaved mother asks how California has the strictest gun laws in the country.
    — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • An assassin therefore strikes beyond the victims and their bereaved.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 15 June 2017
  • The government has rejected calls to give bereaved families more time to pay.
    — Marc Shoffman, TheWeek, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Once again, bereaved parents are sitting in the courtroom audience.
    — Kaitlyn Huamani, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • One of the bereaved fathers has said the shooting continued for several minutes.
    — Washington Post, 4 July 2017
  • But five years later, there’s little closure for Khashoggi and his bereaved relatives and friends.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • However, the two bereaved families are worried that a serial killer is out there and may be seeking their next victim.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Yamen teamed up with other bereaved mothers in Iowa to create the Count the Kicks program.
    — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Her bereaved husband, Thomas, moved to Connecticut with their children and set up shop on the Jeremy.
    — Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • For weeks, the courtroom has been filled with bereaved parents holding framed photos of their children who died after encountering harm on social media.
    — Bobby Allyn, NPR, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The survivors and bereaved families in The Tribe of Nova don’t have a community.
    — Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2026
  • They were joined by the October 7 Council, which represents bereaved families of soldiers who fell at the start of the war.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • In the first three stories, Lilian, as a bereaved mother, goes through life in an altered state, with encounters that increase her sense of introspection.
    — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026

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