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How to use forlornly in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word forlornly? Here are some examples.

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She stared so boldly and so forlornly and so desperately that her heart could have done her talking for her.
He was looking forlornly over the spilt broth, and egg and bacon sandwich that were lying, muddied up and trod on, on the ground.
To those who had watched forlornly as his political hopes ground to a halt in 1989, 1994 and 1998, it seemed he was tempting fate.
But I have been gazing forlornly at my unoccupied bird bath since I was given it for Christmas.
As a technologically illiterate parent, I could only wave forlornly from the other side of the widening technological divide.
Instead, the stubble of last year's spring barley crop sticks forlornly out of the waterlogged ground where the winter wheat should have been.
The few city centre shopkeepers that had bothered to open waited forlornly for customers.
However, if you see me sniffing forlornly tomorrow morning on the Northern Line, have a heart, eh?
It shows the ship lying forlornly on her starboard side, almost completely capsized.
All he could do was stand in the rubble of his precious memories, and forlornly point out random spots now cluttered with cranes and building supplies.
She had lost the final point of that service game in disarray, falling over in mid-rally and desperately, but forlornly, flailing at the ball to try to get it back.
I toddled drowsily into the kitchen, rubbing the sleep from my eyes and feeling a whole lot better, to find Dolly sitting at the closed door, gazing forlornly out.
A TELEVISION advertisement in India for a mobile-phone operator opens with four friends staring forlornly at their car's smashed windshield.
At times he will eat nothing but the fish, and at other times the fish is left to sit forlornly on the plate, while he consumes every French fry within reach.
On busier roads, elderly, scarved women sat by piles of potatoes and onions hoping forlornly for a sale.
What were once shoreside amenities now stand forlornly in the middle of the desert, a 300-yard hike from the beach.
A woman wearing a silk skirt stares forlornly into a mirror.
After much fuss, the miracle fabric unexpectedly unravels, leaving him standing forlornly in his underpants. Barney Southin is deputy editor of Economist.com.
We huddle forlornly on some thin white towels I borrowed from our chalet.
The branches are coated with a thin skin of plaster or white paint so that, at first sight, they seem bleached of life, sapless and forlornly skeletal.
Examples from Classical Literature
He looked up at her with a smile, and he could not see how forlornly she returned it.
But by the time we came across them the commandos were forlornly dispersing.
The dog happened to be down at the shore, forlornly searching for sculpins and caplin.
He accompanied us along the passage into the black-and-white hall, where the low gas flame glimmered forlornly.
In the meantime the boys were gazing very forlornly at Wendy, now equipped with John and Michael for the journey.
An hour or so later, on his way out, he came upon Lady Ruth sitting a little forlornly in the hall.
I looked for him to retaliate, but he contented himself with swimming about forlornly a safe ten feet away.
Then he had strolled off forlornly and in silence toward the garage.
Jim lagged forlornly behind, and it was very anxiously we watched him.
She could not roam about and amuse herself, for the burned breadth would show, so she stared at people rather forlornly till the dancing began.
He turned to Jeremy who, poor boy, was utterly and forlornly seasick.
He slunk forlornly through the deserted camp, smelling the rubbish-heaps and the discarded rags and tags of the gods.
Against the twilight rises the trapezoidal top of the stack, which has stood forlornly here through the washing and bleaching of the wintry weather.
So he arose and trotted forlornly back to camp, pausing once, and twice, to sit down and whimper and to listen to the call that still sounded in the depths of the forest.
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