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How to use forlornness in a sentence

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

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The smile she'd had on her face slowly dissipated as a feeling of forlornness washed over her.
How unspeakable, then, it struck her, that worldly arrangements should contribute to the forlornness of one's natural state!
The general forlornness supports the mood of Hamdan's prison letters to his family, which sound anguished, pious, and unthreatening.
A novel telling of the lifelong sense of desolation, forlornness and longing for an absent mother.
Kierkegaard's stress on the forlornness of the human condition, as well as on the absence of certainty concerning the possibility of salvation, made him an important forerunner of 20th-century existentialism.
Writing can let anyone's inner emotions out, whether joviality, lividness, insecurities, forlornness, etc. Write a novel, autobiography, poem, your own lyrics of a song you want to write, how you feel and what you want to do.
During his military service in the Austrian-Hungarian Army he documented in laconic images the everyday life of the soldiers: the long marches, the waiting in the trenches, the forlornness of the individual.
Examples from Classical Literature
The old sense of forlornness, of being alone and uncared for, returned to her.
They loved to be near one another that their forlornness might pain them less.
The forlornness of the bookcase gave a stricken air to the whole room.
There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness.
On the contrary, who her mother was, and how she came to die in that forlornness, were questions that often pressed on Eppie's mind.
Nancy's aching sympathy for the poor little forlornness beside her turned suddenly into shocked terror.
She stared blankly up at the ceiling, her forlornness as beautifully terrifying as her smile had been uplifting.
He was obsessed by the solitary idea of his own forlornness.
We had subjected ourselves to all this forlornness simply for pleasure.
Though one had a pity for his forlornness, there was still an admiration.
Still her despair and forlornness weighed upon her more and more.
But there were no tears in her eyes, no forlornness in her voice.
There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none.
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