forlorn

How To Use forlorn In A Sentence

• This time she must seem the forlorn victim, with no resources of sinew or cunning to save her - only the kindness of strangers.
• Both ads use the same stock video of Cofield walking forlornly alongside her shuttered brake-pad production facility. Strickland goes negative in first campaign ad
• Her expression collapsed into one of forlorn reminiscence before she continued on in her stranger’s voice. Flowers in the Attic
• She appeared on daytime TV in a forlorn attempt to persuade the public of her innocence.
• Then spare a thought for the forlorn figures in blue by the side of the road. Times, Sunday Times
• Poor Sundry Buyers continually pressed his abdomen as he toiled around the deck-capstans; and never was Nancy's face quite so forlorn as when he obeyed the Maltese Cockney's command and went up to loose the mizzen-skysail. CHAPTER L
• It is a conceit altogether void of reason, but it is so wilful and pertinacious, that it is almost utterly inconvincible, and so it puts souls in the most desperate forlorn estate that can be imagined. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• It is a fond and forlorn hope. Times, Sunday Times
• A Dutch newspaper photographed the president waiting forlornly in the rain.
• Some have a forlorn and battered remnant of a house or two, but they are mostly mere grey areas of flattened stone. Times, Sunday Times