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Sentence Examples Any available baubles must be hoovered up and, with league hopes looking as forlorn as ever, that means the cups. A forlorn pair of chromed handle bars stuck incongruously out from under the massive front roller. It seemed somehow forlorn and pathetic as if it had been suddenly abandoned. A pathetically forlorn figure, he set out to destroy all traces of the religion of his ancestors. It was only when she started being plaintive and forlorn that we returned to her. He does not tell the women he pays court to in England about his forlorn Irish sweetheart. While Robert Shaw's Britisher sneers at all things NYC, Matthau's cragged face and forlorn voice implicitly champion NYC values. Mark took one last look at the forlorn figure of Tina sitting at the table he had just abruptly left. Nevertheless, this daft, complex and slightly forlorn figure is set to become one of rap's martyrs. His new album, written after a nasty split with his fiancee, is so forlorn that the music press is afraid for his health. Considering he has taken a stack of wickets, Murali has cut a surprisingly forlorn figure in this series. The shots were better than good and the swing rhythmic, but the young man in the white shirt still cut rather a forlorn figure. The lonely letter looked forlorn, sitting like an omen on the smooth, glossy surface. Friends tell me Paul has been seen walking his dog around the Heath, looking rather forlorn and lonely. I stood a forlorn figure in the dressing-room, the last to get into the bath. When Ruth reached the beach, she saw a forlorn figure sitting near the edge of the sea. It now consisted of two rooms and a kitchen with a rather forlorn looking hotplate that looked the worse for wear. Vicki stepped off the overflowing bus with a sigh, the forlorn glaze that had darkened Wil's eyes setting heavy on her heart. She looked away and her eye caught a man lounging in the corner, looking alone and forlorn. So, when El returned to the garden he found the man alone and forlorn, grieving for his departed wife. Show More Sentences As multi-layered as a Dagwood sandwich and as forlorn as the last day of summer, the album makes the most out of misery. We took our time tidying up the cutting-room, in the forlorn hope Jerry might relent. Archaeologists think it may have been built in a forlorn attempt to stave off the effects of climate change 5,000 years ago. It always would be, even if his object of forlorn piety never saw him the same way again. Hail pelted down on the forlorn figure making her way up an elegant brick path leading up to a cheery little house. The ships' sails were furled and covered, their many masts looked like forlorn trees in a winter storm. The ragtag Republican forces, resisting him in their forlorn fight against fascism, had encircled the town. Cynthia had dwelled alone in her home, forlorn on her lonesome, with only Julian to keep her company. This, of course, is a vast improvement on those forlorn days when a few disputatious souls insisted that only soldiers had died in the war. He's already involved with a woman who, despite her delicate loveliness, looks positively forlorn. The landing was home to a pair of scabrous aging brutes, a wolf dog and a forlorn Great Dane. There are a few that have vocal hooks, some get awesomely chaotic and some are forlorn ballads. Lately I've been feeling depressed and forlorn, as if my best friend had just died. There's the big Dome standing forlorn and empty, its twelve yellow spikes thrusting defiantly into the sky. She looked exceptionally forlorn when the tour guide reminded us we had to descend by the same passage. The forlorn gazes of the people beseeched them to give them solace, to end their pain. The foundations of some of its towers date back two thousand years and I was struck by the haunting beauty of their forlorn mildewed walls. You don't want us to pace endlessly up and down the hallway, drinking putrid coffee in paper cups and looking forlorn? They were forlorn, dejected, and pleading, yet so serenely resolved he was compelled to do as she asked. Instead there was a ragbag of patients from all strata of society being wheeled around looking rather forlorn. Show More Sentences He cut a forlorn figure with no vest and in shoes at least two sizes too big. Maybe I'm just finely tuned, but right now, he just looks so forlorn, so desolate, that I don't know which way to turn. The sheer bulk and weightiness of the story and its politics, removes the profundity from the last shot of Inba's forlorn face. The buildings stood forlorn and abused, with crackled paint chipped along the corners. The guard looked forlorn beneath the shallow visor of his helm, but he nodded resolutely. These natural phenomena lend some sheen and gloss to the lake, which otherwise looks sick and forlorn now. She is the solace of the forlorn, the chastener of the prosperous, and the guide of the wayward. The New Zealander is a totally different animal to the forlorn figure we saw last season, struggling as he was with injury and confidence. Opening my eyes, she peers back at me, looking forlorn and nervous, as the pale light of dawn steals across the morning sky. This is the tale of a lonely and forlorn Scotsman, who somehow managed to get himself separated from his drinking companions, and lost in a strange city. Without their commanding horn the rhinoceros present a forlorn image. The train sweeps along the valley along Suisun Bay, where a collection of weather-beaten old ships from WWII sit looking forlorn in the still water. This was our friend for the evening, the forlorn type who watches television with a thousand-yard stare, the rustling of his cagoule drowning out the voices in his head. I never saw such a picture of forlorn affliction and distress of mind. Today, a forlorn air hangs over Santa Maria degli Angeli, like a graveyard where ghosts are buried. So, this morning, when I found him, forlorn, trying to get the project further forward, I determined that a leap in the direction of lateral thinking was called for. These days it's home to a wine museum, but don't be surprised if you come across the odd life-sized model of a suitably forlorn prisoner languishing in a corner. He looked as forlorn as might be expected of a retired cop who finds himself the one behind bars. The collapse of the Soviet Empire more than 20 years ago left it, for a time, orphaned and forlorn. Meanwhile a forlorn figure leant against a goalpost long after the finish. Show More Sentences Rare sightings of him suggest a depressed individual, bloated and forlorn. See now, rounding the headland, a forlorn hopeless bird, trembling black wings fingering the blowy air, dainty and ghostly, careless of the scattering salt. A brazier stands forlorn in one corner, its fire long burnt out. The road runs down hushed aisles of lofty Douglas fir, hemlock and Sitka spruce, and passes through deadened stretches of clear-cut forest, forlorn and empty. His harrying of the opposition robbed Chelsea of time on the ball and he looked a million miles removed from the forlorn figure so often seen this season. When I called, the tiny forlorn figure sat up and reached out towards us. The bikers have started burning them down at night in a forlorn attempt to hold back the waves of progress that Phoenix is attracting with its golf courses. Any such effort would be forlorn, for O'Neill is staying put in Britain. Despite some optimistic noises about finding a buyer, saving it looks a forlorn hope and prospects for the remaining 300 workers and 1,750 pensioners look bleak. If they get dragged down with this, they will lose their seats, maybe control of Congress, and if that happens, impeachment talk goes from forlorn hope to a bill. But that now looks a forlorn hope as the player suffered a setback and is unlikely to get many, if any, competitive matches under his belt before the season ends. They would be forced to start at the bottom and work their way back up, but at least derby matches would simply be a hope for the future rather than a forlorn hope. Instead he dallies and allows the impetus to drain away from the move with a pass all the way back to Gary Speed who has a forlorn pop from distance. The roads are forlorn, the landscape barren, the forests menacing. Its length and grim message might conjure images of four forlorn goth Wannabes, or four death metal scowlers. The picture that springs to mind here might be one of an unwalked dog looking forlorn. The cat bird had a forlorn cry, like a whimpering child or the animal it is named for. The obsolete verb forlese is now used only as the passive participle forlorn. Arnold, therefore, as usual with him, led the forlorn hope, marching about one hundred yards before the main body. Well! It is a forlorn hope at the best, and not much the forlorner for being delayed till dark. Show More Sentences Originally she had come to me, possessed but of one gown, and that a forlorn and ragged balzarine, with four draggled, torn flounces. His chances of winning are about as slim as one of the sponsors' Panatellas, but a place in the first four is no forlorn hope. He could not shake the image of that forlorn, mistreated horse. The whole building, with its dark windows and soundless avenues, had an air strikingly forlorn and solitary. She used to trot up and down Simla Mall in a forlorn sort of way, with a grey Terai hat well on the back of her head, and a shocking bad saddle under her. Lieutenant Templeton of the 76th offered to lead the forlorn hope. It is such a forlorn, sad dream of an aged man which, in itself, was replicated in the younger generation with their veneration of Gadoid, Castro and so forth. Four years after, this military adventurer, who had given so much trouble, died in a mean tavern in Philadelphia, disgraced, unpitied, and forlorn. We left the motorcaravan, looking sad and forlorn, at Athens airport, and flew to Tunisia to stay in a resort hotel for two weeks near the country's third largest city Sousse. Tory MPs want the new GP fundholding consortia in place by April 2013, but in the light of Mr Clegg's latest intervention, this is looking like an increasingly forlorn hope. Examples from Classical Literature Honor to him who can lead the forlorn hope of this stronghold of weariness. There was no time to repaint and polish the machine, so he resolved to convert its forlorn appearance into an asset. She had made no plans for the entrapping of any soul, and yet she felt forlorn and wicked. Her forlorn soul must have gaged his distress by the measure of her own sorrowful longing. His third position, that the crown estates were partible, was but a forlorn hope. Yet, tired as they were, they were still attempting forlorn, giggly little jokes and friendly greetings. Some of our forlorn party had friends to meet them and Governor Abernathy kept the others until places were found for them. It was because of what he had said that I had come, as a sort of last chance, a forlorn hope. The death of Elena in 1505, and of the hospodar a year earlier, left the youth Dimitri in a forlorn and friendless condition. These men were as forlorn and miserable as my self, death grinning in our faces at every turn. Many of them had lost their all, yet the worst sufferers seemed by far the most stouthearted of the forlorn crowd. The camp was merely a litter of refuse and the ashes of various campfires, with one wikiup standing forlorn in the midst. She stole curious and forlorn glances at the dejected Bob, who bore the guilty look of at least a wife-beater or a family tyrant. Many were the tears that he shed, and even the garden, the loved garden, went forlorn and unweeded. The trolley-car that met his train was rusty, paintless, forlorn, untenanted. Certainly her dimple deepened a little as she relinquished the forlorn object. Saugus was as forlorn as a muddy beach at low tide, but some of us made the most of our unpromising surroundings. It seemed that she was making an appeal to someone in whom she had only a forlorn hope. Why not make them the forlorn hope of the campaign, and so get rid of them entirely? I laid it, all lonely and forlorn, in the center of the vast solitude of his palm. Show More Sentences Meanwhile she lay on her bed with old Joanna at her side, for even in her wanderings she did not forget her forlorn protege. Lonely and forlorn are standing epithets of Ossian, and Fingal, bk. You should be a centipede, Hal, instead of that forlorn biped, a bachelor. The entire scene was desolately savage and forlorn, but attractive. There they grouped themselves about, in couples and threes, and mumbled in bated voices, and looked timid and homeless and forlorn. Persecuted, maligned, and misunderstood, the forlorn and lonely man made no attempt at retaliation. I came here with a wild sort of forlorn hope you could forgive. I told him the Fortieth, and that I had been one of the forlorn hope. It's a wise business-man who knows when to quit a forlorn hope. My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. I may not look quite so forlorn as the geologist did, but I feel it. He dragged himself upstairs, and brooded in his room a long time, disconsolate and forlorn, with Luigi's Indian knife for a text. No lady, now, but simply Hepzibah Pyncheon, a forlorn old maid, and keeper of a cent-shop! All of her sprite, her mind, forlorn, were evermore hanging. Meredosia was a forlorn, thriftless place, and he had no money to travel. He saw me standing beside his bed, defenceless, symbolic and forlorn, and all he found to say was, 'Well, I am like that. I was a forlorn old tree, but now that this blossoming vine has wound itself about me and become the life of my life, it is very different. This was evidently not one of the forlorn, persecuted, pitiably dependent order of governesses. I hope, from the bottom of my heart, he won't keep her waiting much longer, for it is quite grievous to see her look so ill and forlorn. At about noon we reached a forlorn mud hut, known as Packwood's ranch. Show More Sentences The chorus offered strong support in addition to the forlorn beauty of their singing and there were many powerful duologues. But he saw that it was good, else, he said, in battle every one would surely run save forlorn hopes and their ilk. But no heroes, returning from a forlorn hope, could have had a warmer welcome from their comrades. Behind a hedge in the garden near where he was standing was a forlorn person in white, whose neat nose, chestnut hair, and blue eyes he seemed to know. To do so meant changing a well-ordered advance into a forlorn hope. By the involuntary effect of a genial temperament, Phoebe soon grew to be absolutely essential to the daily comfort, if not the daily life, of her two forlorn companions. Then her face went bleakly forlorn, hard almost in its helpless pathos. Seest thou yon dreary Plain, forlorn and wilde, The seat of desolation, voyd of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? It is impossible to conceive of a human creature more wholly desolate and forlorn than Eliza, when she turned her footsteps from Uncle Tom's cabin. At its opposite extremity the street leads to a deserted martello tower, and to the forlorn outlying suburb of Slaughden, between the river Alde and the sea. He stood at the window mechanically picking leaves from a pot of heath placed in front of it, and drearily humming the forlorn fragment of a tune. The place had that ragged, forlorn appearance, which is always produced by the evidence that the care of the former owner has been left to go to utter decay. Her glory is departed, and with her crumbling grandeur of wharves and palaces about her she sits among her stagnant lagoons, forlorn and beggared, forgotten of the world. Of all God-forsaken dustbins of Nature, I think the most heart-breaking are places like that bandstand, that were meant to be festive and are forlorn. His forlorn travels of the preceding winter had made him acquainted with the topography of the country, and he reached Snake River without any material difficulty. Find more words! 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