forlorn in English
forlorn figures at bus stops
a forlorn attempt to escape
Use "forlorn" in a sentence
1. ..a forlorn, haunting plaint.
2. The house stood forlorn and empty.
3. The house looked old and forlorn.
4. The lion just moaned and looked forlorn.
5. Locals pile garbage beside the forlorn visitors center.
6. Empty houses quickly take on a forlorn look.
7. The banners and ribbons looked forlorn in the rain.
8. But they are wrong to be so forlorn.
9. She looked so forlorn, standing there in the pouring rain.
10. She looked a forlorn figure standing at the bus stop.
11. A forlorn line of refugees stood near the truck.
12. She'd sounded rather forlorn, she realised, and she silently cursed her frankness.
13. One of the demonstrators, a young woman, sat forlorn on the pavement.
14. Some common synonyms of Alone are desolate, forlorn, lonely, lonesome, lone, and solitary
15. Defying gravity, wrecked buildings leaned drunkenly over the forlorn rubble-filled streets.
16. Yet in the midst of all the jollity, he felt a little forlorn.
17. 12 One of the demonstrators, a young woman,[www.Sentencedict.com] sat forlorn on the pavement.
18. Antonyms for Consoled include distressed, displeased, dissatisfied, dispirited, joyless, dejected, despondent, forlorn, miserable and sad
19. She felt a hopelessness of their even being extricated together from that forlorn place.
20. Antonyms for Befriended include friendless, abandoned, alone, deserted, isolated, lonely, shunned, solitary, forlorn and forsaken
21. He sits forlorn on horse-munched hay while his thoughts run on distant, fabled gold.
22. 12 I'm a poor, miserable , forlorn drudge; I shall only drag you down with me.
23. Instant wisdom proffered by some commentators in the quality press is that Labour's task is forlorn.
24. His father smiled weakly in a forlorn attempt to reassure him that everything was all right.
25. Wretched, miserable, hopeless, dismal, outcast, pitiful, forlorn, deplorable, pitiable Both of them died in Abject poverty
26. Half wanting to quit, half determined to persevere he was caught for some moments, indecisive and forlorn.
27. The character only needs to stand on a balcony, look forlorn, and walk back inside the house.
28. The reporters have dispersed, and the two of them actually look somewhat forlorn when I come by.
29. It was a forlorn sight to see that troupe passing through our lines at such a time.
30. She appeared on daytime TV in a forlorn attempt to persuade the public of her innocence.
31. Mira was there also, forlorn in the snowy courtyard as she contemplated Bicker leaving her yet again.
32. She is the solace of the forlorn, the Chastener of the prosperous, and the guide of the wayward
33. Scattered about, a few large, forlorn sunflowers make a game attempt to brighten a scene of dismal rural poverty.
34. 6 With the modernisation of the railway system, Brooke End signal box was abandoned, its structure left to stand forlorn.
35. Examples: “She is the solace of the forlorn, the Chastener of the prosperous, and the guide of the wayward
36. (Martin Eden, by Jack London) With drooping tail and shivering body, very forlorn indeed, he Aimlessly circled the tent
37. 17 In a new departure, Change, somewhat forlorn rows of clay pots confront enlarged versions of coins of the Ottoman Empire.
38. 14 I pull my battledress jacket over my head in a forlorn attempt to escape from the tiny tormentors; sleep is impossible.
39. Bunkhouses is a location in Forlorn Muskeg.There are four inaccessible structures with barrels, crates and pallets around, as well as a metal container
40. He was the most miserable looking person there, standing alone in the shade of a small tree, forlorn among thousands of joyful brothers.
41. ‘Curiously, I find snooker riveting’ ‘The single burned match has a Curiously forlorn feeling.’ ‘The stone cages have a Curiously sensual, primeval quality, like the ancient dry stone walls in fields.’
42. An Accusing look from someone shows that they think you have done something wrong —Accusingly adverb Examples from the Corpus Accusing • The deserted nest, neat as a pin, had a forlorn Accusing air
43. What Argufies snivelling and piping your eye? 18th Century British Sea Chanty Throngs of teary Germans gathered forlorn on the Hamburg waterfront when fire gutted the Fatherland's superliner Europa as she lay abuilding (TIME, April 8)
44. When forlorn Dan and his dog Chapatti cross paths with amiable Betty and her nineteen cats, an unexpected spark begins a warm and gentle story about two people re-discovering the importance of human companionship
45. This is the maiden all forlorn That milked the cow with the Crumpled horn That tossed the dog that worried the cat That killed the rat that ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
46. Craggier and less cookie-cutter than the young pretty boys normally seen in such fare, Gordon-Levitt expressively alternates between enthusiasm and forlorn disappointment in the manner Jack Lemmon could, and it makes you really root for the guy.
47. ‘a Beseeching gaze’ ‘His friends urgently besought him while there was yet time to flee the country.’ ‘People who pray tend to beseech their deity for some kind of enrichment or advancement.’ ‘The forlorn gazes of the people beseeched them to give them solace, to end their pain.’
48. ‘People who pray tend to Beseech their deity for some kind of enrichment or advancement.’ ‘The forlorn gazes of the people Beseeched them to give them solace, to end their pain.’ ‘Willow suddenly clutched my arm to her, her voice hushed but urgent, her eyes Beseeching me; ‘Do not leave my side!’’
49. The distinguishing mark of the hens was a crest of lamentably scanty growth, in these latter days, but so oddly and wickedly analogous to Hepzibah's turban, that Phoebe--to the poignant distress of her conscience, but inevitably --was led to fancy a general resemblance betwixt these forlorn Bipeds and her respectable relative.
50. Of sorrow, Barricadoed evermore Within the walls of Cities; may these sounds Have their authentic comment,—that, even these Hearing, I be not downcast or forlorn! —Come thou prophetic Spirit! that inspir'st The human Soul of universal earth, Dreaming on things to come; and dost possess A metropolitan temple in the hearts Of mighty Poets