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    Use "forlorn" in a sentence

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    forlorn


    1. He was the only runner out and Main Street was deserted except for two forlorn and anxious looking individuals standing outside the offices of the local bank


    2. We blustered across the tarmac to the arrivals hall which was more like someone's lounge and after about ten minutes, to my immense relief, I recognised my luggage on the carousel looking forlorn and winding its way towards me like a prisoner finally released


    3. My dear aunt, so wretched and forlorn, so defeated in her grief, I dared not make a sound


    4. Lieutenant Imdrun was a very needy soul, and represented himself as a slight man with a forlorn face and droopy eyes


    5. I wrote 5 books, longhand, while waiting in rail stations, State Prison fields at 2 a m, and forlorn rail crossings right out of Stephen King novels with all the demons and terror


    6. I wrote 5 books, longhand, while waiting in rail stations, State Prison fields at 2 A M, and forlorn rail crossings right out of Stephen King novels with all the demons and terror


    7. The dumplings had disappeared over the brim and lay soggy and forlorn


    8. “Now leave me alone! I don’t want to see you! I hate you! And I hate this place!” She turned and ran away to her quarters, leaving him alone and forlorn in the hall


    9. ” Her face looked a little forlorn so she changed the subject saying


    10. “Yes,” he smiled looking a bit forlorn

    11. Not in a forlorn sense, but a conscious sense of detachment to herself, rather than a loneliness at being imprisoned with her own thoughts and problems in a one-room bed-sit, in the concrete block that she had called 'home'


    12. They looked forlorn in the late evening light with the mouldy forage caps hung on the crosses and I wondered how long they had been there and if anyone else had noticed them


    13. “I remember it all like it was yesterday,” he answered in a forlorn tone


    14. “Didn’t think about that either” said Harry his tone of voice giving away his forlorn feelings


    15. He directed me to a forlorn little box at the end of the counter and sniffed that he thought this one would do me fine


    16. What's the use of looking forlorn?


    17. His heart went out to her, she looked so weary and forlorn


    18. Call it destiny? Blame God? Cry over your forlorn luck? Nothing would change the situation


    19. As a graying sixties generation quickly approaches middle age, sustained by a wistful desire for the ―good old days‖ that typified its youthful idealism, many can‘t help reflecting on those formative years without forlorn regret over a progeny whose slackening awareness and indifference to social ―causes‖ and other immediate issues that continue to trouble our society has given way to self-gratifying designs, like amassing ―huge‖ fortunes, for example


    20. But it was a forlorn hope and I was soon brought back to reality

    21. Bru hung onto a few items in the rather forlorn hope that he might have a home of his own again someday


    22. My hope, forlorn as it was, was something Robert didn’t have anymore


    23. The moth furled its wings and hung its antennae dejectedly, beaten and forlorn


    24. “To follow through on what we have started; out of a sense of duty, or maybe it is some mistaken, forlorn way of accepting responsibility,” he concluded dramatically


    25. The kid was a pretty imaginative sort, with dreams, and fantasies, those forlorn hopes of what might have been achieved—if only


    26. Perhaps the man had saved their lives, with his uncanny ability to find sustenance in such a forlorn and inhospitable place


    27. Molo thought about inquiring about the origin of the meat, but quickly his inquisitiveness dissipated into a forlorn hope that some of the desert was populated by hares or something equally less hideous than lizards


    28. The place was empty now and forlorn looking


    29. LP recollected a cartoon of Blitz and his handler, looking forlorn, with their heads sticking out of a large dog box


    30. A strange forlorn feeling of an idea formed up in his mind

    31. Had she understood the strain that he had been under after all, and misinterpreted his sudden lack of coordination as exhaustion only? He dared not look back at those almond eyes, so full of the forlorn hope that his obvious condition must have convinced her of


    32. Scattered and forlorn, the once proud spacecraft of countless alien empires tumbled and turned like dead leaves floating on a warm autumn breeze


    33. Or, had he serendipitously been made aware of the uncertain utility of a broken branch that offered a sometime protection, before he had learned of the utility of a stone to crack tough shells? Had he, in his industry to feed himself, used his hammer-stone too diligently, accidentally flaking off an edge that revealed the sharpness that he had been warned away from, among the many choices of stones to be found lying in certain places close to where water was to be found? Had he become aware of the danger to himself in the continued use of that broken stone when the flesh of his finger came into contact with that sharp edge? Had he now thrown it in the forlorn hope that this suddenly sharp edge would somehow slash into this enemy of his existence?


    34. Al gives me a forlorn look, and I smile back in what I hope is a reassuring way


    35. She did not look much like the forlorn and ragged waif the Merediths had found in the old Taylor barn


    36. 19 O you mighty God above all, hear the voice of the forlorn and deliver us out of the hands of the mischievous, and deliver me out of


    37. After fourteen hours of artillery fire on Chapultepec Castle, five hundred volunteers known as “the Forlorn Hope” used ladders to climb into point-blank fire


    38. Devin sits alone, with a forlorn look about


    39. afflicted, an helper of the oppressed, an upholder of the weak, a protector of the forlorn, a saviour of them that are without hope


    40. And life continues its final forlorn struggle

    41. Only the forlorn green highway signs told


    42. 11 For your power stands not in multitude nor your might in strong men for you are a God of the afflicted an helper of the oppressed an upholder of the weak a protector of the forlorn a saviour of them that are without hope


    43. other forlorn faces that now surrounded him, and with tears streaming down his cheeks he


    44. Altogether it looked a sad and forlorn old ship— but to the four children it was the most exciting thing in the whole world


    45. The forlorn fisherman wandered the forest for a time without account, walking in circles, crossing bridges


    46. Her face was still happy while Jonathan looked forlorn


    47. She was an old woman well into her eighties, frail and forlorn


    48. " And thus speaking to the dejected and forlorn ambassadors of the kingdom, this self-appointed chief of communication and intelligence took leave of the apostles


    49. I stroked the forlorn curve of


    50. She steps back and retreats in some vague hope of finding refuge from the oppressive and forlorn silence











































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    Synonyms for "forlorn"

    forlorn tragic comfortless destitute disconsolate dreary helpless miserable forgotten alone deserted desolate forsaken lost solitary

    "forlorn" definitions

    marked by or showing hopelessness