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

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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
“A poor forlorn and ignorant stranger, unacquainted with the very Alcoran of the savage tribe whom you are come to reside among — Never to have heard of Markham, the most celebrated author on farriery! then I fear you are equally a stranger to the more modern names of Gibson and Bartlett?” Rob Roy
I feel rather forlorn, but guess he just had to crack on. Times, Sunday Times
See now, rounding the headland, a forlorn hopeless bird, trembling black wings fingering the blowy air, dainty and ghostly, careless of the scattering salt.
Why should it expend men and treasure on the forlorn hope of supporting democracy abroad? Times, Sunday Times
Seeing him sat there all alone like that was kind of sad - he looked so lonely and forlorn.
One forlorn fragment of dollanity had belonged to Jo and, having led a tempestuous life, was left a wreck in the rag bag, from which dreary poorhouse it was rescued by Beth and taken to her refuge.
Everywhere are evidences of faded ambitions and forlorn whistles in the dark…
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.
But their forlorn, polished California pop is like the sprawling Valley suburbs: nice enough, if that's your sort of thing.
Our choice in this moment of utter forlornness will change the form and the content of the universe. Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp: Retrieving G-d's Hidden Rays of Light: A Global Partnership Is Emerging
I pause, watching as she gazes forlornly out the window.
You don't want us to pace endlessly up and down the hallway, drinking putrid coffee in paper cups and looking forlorn?
Blocks and blocks of homes are being rehabbed and spiffed up, which is breathing life into many once-forlorn districts of the city.
The Republican's 48-page "Pledge to America" is suffused with evocative, "feel-good" imagery designed to console and revivify America's frustrated and forlorn population. Mark Cassello: The Road to a New Progressive Narrative, Part Two: The Right's Winning Non-Rational Propaganda
It shows the ship lying forlornly on her starboard side, almost completely capsized.
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.
Vicki stepped off the overflowing bus with a sigh, the forlorn glaze that had darkened Wil's eyes setting heavy on her heart.
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.
a single chicken was scratching forlornly in the yard
An entire gopuram, a huge round ball carved intricately, lies forlorn in the shallow sea, surrounded by piles of slabs and bricks and more carvings and general debris from the temple.
In this figure of the _Crosse-couple_ we wrate for a forlorne louer complaining of his mistresse crueltie these verses among other. The Arte of English Poesie
Still harbour forlorn dreams of having time for an allotment. Times, Sunday Times
I looked forlornly past the celebratory bottle of champagne, consoling myself that it could be saved for New Years, and selected a bottle of Barbados dark rum from my disturbingly overstocked bar.
But it looked like a forlorn hope when he failed to get a place at art college. Times, Sunday Times
I never saw such a picture of forlorn affliction and distress of mind.
But it looked like a forlorn hope when he failed to get a place at art college. Times, Sunday Times
Blocks and blocks of homes are being rehabbed and spiffed up, which is breathing life into many once-forlorn districts of the city.
The fame of whose name made all men quake and tremble, and who then had commaunded all the troupe of the Gentlemen of his Court, to go and seeke the forlorne louers, so long time lost and vnknowen. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
So it might be a forlorn hope. The Sun
The single burned match has a curiously forlorn feeling.
The same night the Spaniards tooke one of our soldiors appointed for a forlorne Sentinel, whom they presently put to the sword. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
3.10 About the same time Abbot Benedict ordered the transcription of sixty volumes, containing one hundred titles, for his library at Peterborough. 3.11 By 1244, in spite of losses in the fire of 1184, Glastonbury had a library of some four hundred volumes, historical books consorting with romances, Bibles and patristical works almost crowding out some forlorn classics. 3.12 Nearly half a century later Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
During the presentation he just sat there looking forlorne. The Good Boy
The few city centre shopkeepers that had bothered to open waited forlornly for customers.
The latter are looking a little forlorn, though. Times, Sunday Times
Reliques he had left behind him, I meane the Friars hood and Cowle, which shewing to their sister, and sharpely reproving her unwomanly behaviour: they left her in no meane discomfort, returning home to their owne houses, with their conquered spolle of the forlorne The Decameron
He began a forlorn final game by losing his grip on the racket altogether.
Perhaps Welch's oddball tales of "deep diving" into the many forlorn crannies of General Electric with some young comer from the Appliances Division fascinate the business elite. Books About Schnooks
More than most well-educated, middle-class talents of his generation, he footled his life away as a forlorn, frustrated flaneur, squandering several inherited fortunes to achieve renown only under a false name playing an elaborate practical joke.
[Page 156] the poorhouse, the result of centuries of deterrent Poor Law administration, seemed to me not without some justification one summer when I found myself perpetually distressed by the unnecessary idleness and forlornness of the old women in the Cook County Infirmary, many of whom I had known in the years when activity was still a necessity, and when they yet felt bustlingly important. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
The ragtag Republican forces, resisting him in their forlorn fight against fascism, had encircled the town.
His new album, written after a nasty split with his fiancee, is so forlorn that the music press is afraid for his health.
Her reply began with a hint of forlornness that vanished with her smile, as she warned: CHAPTER VII
It was only when she started being plaintive and forlorn that we returned to her.
A pathetically forlorn figure, he set out to destroy all traces of the religion of his ancestors.
They saw a ragged, forlorn figure standing before them. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
It is a fond and forlorn hope. Times, Sunday Times
It proved to be a forlorn hope. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
We continued negotiating in the forlorn hope of finding a peace formula.
The deserted nest, neat as a pin, had a forlorn accusing air.
The paddock, baked by hot sunshine, looked just a little forlorn last night. Times, Sunday Times
A pathetically forlorn figure, he set out to destroy all traces of the religion of his ancestors.
Norman’s historic contribution to the practice of modern medicine arose from his discovery that two specialitiespreviously laboring in forlorn isolation — gastroenterology and psychiatry — were actually made for each other, and more effectively than ever before enabled the doctor to get right inside the patient. Archive 2009-05-01
Any such effort would be forlorn, for O'Neill is staying put in Britain.
It is a fond and forlorn hope. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Why should it expend men and treasure on the forlorn hope of supporting democracy abroad? Times, Sunday Times
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.
Huge parking lots, which were fully packed throughout the day with scores of sleek bikes, elegant two-wheelers and rakish cars, stand forlorn and neglected with nothing but tyre tracks and fading oil leaks on the ground.
Empty houses quickly take on a forlorn look.
The spectator feels the forlorn atmosphere; senses the image 's haunting melancholy. Times, Sunday Times
It seemed somehow forlorn and pathetic as if it had been suddenly abandoned.
They were forlorn, dejected, and pleading, yet so serenely resolved he was compelled to do as she asked.
But O how melancholy a forlorn, beautiless world will this be at this day! Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
It proved to be a forlorn hope. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
A brazier stands forlorn in one corner, its fire long burnt out.
In at least this viewer's effort to make sense of things, those faces invited us to acknowledge the comic forlornness manifested by the other photographs - in other words, to accept them as true.
One part of the American dream may be the increasingly forlorn hope that anyone can make it to the top, irrespective of background. Times, Sunday Times
I shall expiate my sin of leaving you forlorn in wicked Suez and expunge myself of guilt for ever more. THE BLACK OPAL
The watchman thought he could hear a new shading in her words now, the echo of a forlorn pain that had no bottom. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
In what she called her spare time she was engaged in the endless task of repairing and extending her forlorn little shanties. Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
Still, when I ate a ballottine of duck, the dish would bring back memories of Ahmet’s kitchen and I would feel totally forlorn. Apricots on the Nile
Walking through the Library trying to get oriented to Smith and feeling rather forlorn in that class oriented environment, I came across a man at a bubbler consuming water in plenty.
Dirty, forlorn and feeling like a wounded soldier, our hero then finds a coin in his pocket. Times, Sunday Times
Who would be willing to admit that monitoring screens often flickered forlornly to the soft echoes of slumber or sat in closets unwatched and untended or, even worse, were silent since they weren't even working at all?
There was a perpetual rush of ‘machines’, motor-cars and motor-buses — called camiónes — along the one forlorn road coming to Sayula from Guadalajara. The Plumed Serpent
We continued negotiating in the forlorn hope of finding a peace formula.
But it looked like a forlorn hope when he failed to get a place at art college. Times, Sunday Times
The sharp ears were not pricked so sharply as he had seen them on other wolves; the eyes were bleared and bloodshot, the head seemed to droop limply and forlornly. LOVE OF LIFE
One part of the American dream may be the increasingly forlorn hope that anyone can make it to the top, irrespective of background. Times, Sunday Times
The buildings stood forlorn and abused, with crackled paint chipped along the corners.
Jeryd is a rumel, a species of nonhuman that can live for hundreds of years and shares the city with humans, birdlike garuda, and the eerie banshees whose forlorn cries herald death. Archive 2010-03-01
They saw a ragged, forlorn figure standing before them. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Meanwhile a forlorn figure leant against a goalpost long after the finish.
While the prospects for a successful challenge through the courts or via the FA appear increasingly forlorn, the south-west London torch-bearers undoubtedly have one major advantage: commercial clout.
Forlorn eyes, a bulbous nose and sweeping cheekbones (reminiscent of Faye Dunaway, but in a manly sort of way) complete the landscape.
Not since The Remains of the Day has Ishiguro written about wasted lives with such finely gauged forlornness. Never Let Me Go: Summary and book reviews of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
This is to coincide with the decision to publish her book on how to boil eggs in French, presumably in the forlorn hope that the good people of that country won't realise she's a "rosbif".
Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave forlorn
By the time Sara had made her delivery - in a rainstorm - tattered Mylar hung forlornly from a warped and woebegone frame.
The house stood forlorn and empty.
Through a small aperture, each mirror reveals a forlorn apartment - a raw space in need of love.
While Robert Shaw's Britisher sneers at all things NYC, Matthau's cragged face and forlorn voice implicitly champion NYC values.
I shall expiate my sin of leaving you forlorn in wicked Suez and expunge myself of guilt for ever more. THE BLACK OPAL
Archaeologists think it may have been built in a forlorn attempt to stave off the effects of climate change 5,000 years ago.
Our cousins across the line, with their population of one hundred million, are still forlornly looking for the great American novel, and remembering the age and character of this Dominion I very much doubt if you will ever have the great Canathan novel, for the author of any such master-piece would have to have the geographical restlessness of a Casey Jones and the lyric fervour of an Archibald Lampman and the diligence of an Arnold Bennett and the humour of a Cervantes and the realism of a Zola and the fantasticism. of a Wilson MacDonald and the scholarship of a Charles G. The Interpreters of Canada
[Jan. 18th, 2009 | 12: 19 pm] [Tags | books into movies, christopher hinz, comics into movies, david drake, david weber, harry turtledove, joe haldeman, matt wagner] "The Forlorn Hope" by David Drake -- It holds a special place in my heart because its the first Drake book I ever read and the first story I ever really wanted to see made into a movie. Books and Comics I would like to see turned in Movies or Mini-Series
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.
But it looked like a forlorn hope when he failed to get a place at art college. Times, Sunday Times
All the same, it looked forlorn and empty and uncared for, and there were several discarded newspapers on the floor next to his chair. Fatal Error
Then spare a thought for the forlorn figures in blue by the side of the road. Times, Sunday Times
A little later, queuing forlornly towards U.S. customs and immigration, a tall, middle-aged man — Canadian passport, je regrette — passed the time by clipping his fingernails. O tempora, O mores
She was prostrated by seasickness, which is no respecter of persons, and a more forlorn, unhappy mortal I never expect to see. Brave and Bold The Fortunes of Robert Rushton
We had not wasted words at any time, and on remounting, preserved as profound a silence as if we were on a forlorn hope, even the natives intermitting their ceaseless gabble. The Hawaiian Archipelago
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 (I suspect) and a forlorn Great Dane.
She has a strange sideways glance towards the bridemaid in pink- a forlorn longing that she cant marry her perhaps.... or maybe thats just me over-interpreting. Today's Pattern Story (and Sale) - A Dress A Day
A forlorn pair of chromed handle bars stuck incongruously out from under the massive front roller.
Instant wisdom proffered by some commentators in the quality press is that Labour's task is forlorn.
He sits forlorn on horse-munched hay while his thoughts run on distant, fabled gold.
In this sort in short time, it chaunced to the two innocent children of the Erle of Angiers, which were left by him as lost and quite forlorne. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
But that is a forlorn hope. The Sun
They could provide forlorn pullets, certainly from the same farmyard with the lean kine of Egypt, and to these they could add, what was much better left unadded, a villainous species of unleavened bread, a sort of hoecake, not at all improved -- precisely like the run of travelers -- by leaving home and wandering in the Orient. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
The lion just moaned and looked forlorn.
Ana sat with a bowed head and spoke in a forlorn voice.
When I called, the tiny forlorn figure sat up and reached out towards us.
I stood a forlorn figure in the dressing-room, the last to get into the bath.
See now, rounding the headland, a forlorn hopeless bird, trembling black wings fingering the blowy air, dainty and ghostly, careless of the scattering salt.
It always would be, even if his object of forlorn piety never saw him the same way again.
In this figure of the Crosse-couple we wrate for a forlorne loure complaining of his mistresse crueltie these verses among other. The Arte of English Poesie
Their tombstones leaned forlornly over nothingness, like an existentialist 's ultimate metaphor: Sartre would have loved it. NO BODY
How unspeakable, then, it struck her, that worldly arrangements should contribute to the forlornness of one's natural state!
But I have been gazing forlornly at my unoccupied bird bath since I was given it for Christmas.
Instead there was a ragbag of patients from all strata of society being wheeled around looking rather forlorn.
It had been neither strikingly new, nor utterly shabby, neither napless nor over-glossy, and might have passed for the hat of a frugally given owner, but its artificially prolonged existence had now reached the final stage, it was crumpled, forlorn, and completely ruined, a downright rag, a fitting emblem of its master. The Magic Skin
Dirty, forlorn and feeling like a wounded soldier, our hero then finds a coin in his pocket. Times, Sunday Times
He just minds his own business and looks forlornly at the petrol pumps. Times, Sunday Times
Jazz sighed, a forlorn expression shadowing his face. Death, Deceit & Some Smooth Jazz
Before a storme flewe neuer Doues so fast, As _Spanyards_ from the furie of his fist, The stout _Reuenge_, about whose forlorne wast, Whilome so many in their moods persist, Now all alone, none but the scourge imbrast, Her foes from handie combats cleane desist; Yet still incirkling her within their powers, From farre sent shot, as thick as winters showers. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Any available baubles must be hoovered up and, with league hopes looking as forlorn as ever, that means the cups.
Lloyd recalled the forlorn little woman in a wispy crêpe veil, who had enlisted her sympathy to such an extent one Thanksgiving Day that she and Betty had walked over to Rollington from the Seminary to carry the greater part of the turkey and fruit that had been sent them in their box of Thanksgiving goodies. The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation
Most people who visit Fun Town expect to be able to sit quietly at an outside beer boozer and be pestered around 800 times an hour by the forlorn multitude of watch sellers, shoe shiners, cigarette floggers, carpet baggers, flower peddlers, photo snappers and others too numerous to mention.
There was naught but shadows in the room; even Joyce had fled, and the forlorn, unshakeable feeling of nostalgia.
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.
A small party, that might be called a forlorn hope, provided with plank to cross the ditch, advanced at a run, up to the very ditch; the lines of infantry sprang from cover, and advanced rapidly in line of battle. Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
When he got abroad at last he was hardly grateful that he had been spared, remembering how lonely was his estate, how companionless and forlorn he was. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
He could not get over the suddenness of it, and watched them forlornly, gazing enviously at their conferences over the medicine chest, once straightening himself from his search for stones to call longingly: The Emigrant Trail
These protective garments are generally also festooned with wands of office: besmeared stethoscopes draped around the neck, clunky paging devices clipped to the belt, and an array of well chewed ballpoint pens poking forlornly from the breast and hip pockets. Cri de coeur
Forlorn piano waltzes, blue basslines and fairytale xylophones combine to create a lonely, delicate soundscape.
The spectator feels the forlorn atmosphere; senses the image's haunting melancholy. Times, Sunday Times
In a new departure, Change, somewhat forlorn rows of clay pots confront enlarged versions of coins of the Ottoman Empire.
Hail pelted down on the forlorn figure making her way up an elegant brick path leading up to a cheery little house.
They were forlorn, dejected, and pleading, yet so serenely resolved he was compelled to do as she asked.
Lately I've been feeling depressed and forlorn, as if my best friend had just died.
On the steps I stood still and looked round: long storm-clouds were creeping heavily over the grey sky; a dark-brown bush was writhing in the wind, and murmuring plaintively; the yellow grass helplessly and forlornly bowed down to the earth; flocks of thrushes were fluttering in the mountain-ashes among the bright, flame-coloured clusters of berries. The Jew and other stories
In a new departure, Change, somewhat forlorn rows of clay pots confront enlarged versions of coins of the Ottoman Empire.
He cut a forlorn figure with no vest and in shoes at least two sizes too big.
The house, accustomed to the hustle and bustle of political activity, is forlorn: a few of the Leader's personal aides are about, in addition to the two police constables posted at the gate.
There is a fearless advance, and your skirmishers are your forlorn hope. Battle Studies
Saul Bellow literarily expounds the existentialism philosophy propositions of Sartre in Seize the Day: forlornness, anguish, death, individual choice and humane responsibility.
I don't feel so forlorn, and will try to bear it if it comes. Little Women
The ships' sails were furled and covered, their many masts looked like forlorn trees in a winter storm.
Defying gravity, wrecked buildings leaned drunkenly over the forlorn rubble-filled streets.
This helps us understand what the actual content is of such words as anguish, forlornness, despair.
A hundred yards from his window, it stood forlorn and empty. The Tribes Triumphant
Will, is that you?" called a forlorn voice from the depths. Cricket at the Seashore
The latter are looking a little forlorn, though. Times, Sunday Times
Orleans, despatched their billets by the forlornly precarious post only when they could not send them by the "urbanity" of such or such a one! Kincaid's Battery
During the monsoons the ferries stop plying and the Gateway looks a trifle forlorn without the seething crowds that normally sit around it, shooting the breeze when the weather is gentler.
But that is a forlorn hope. The Sun
It is a fond and forlorn hope. Times, Sunday Times
The deserted nest, neat as a pin, had a forlorn accusing air.
The last tie, the last constraint that bound him to home and a steady, righteous life would be broken; he would go all adrift, be tossed hither and thither on every wave of circumstance -- what he called circumstance -- till Heaven only knew what a total wreck he might speedily become, or in what forlorn and far off seas his ruined life might go down. Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.
As a technologically illiterate parent, I could only wave forlornly from the other side of the widening technological divide.
But he looks a forlorn hope as he only scrambled home in the Vase. The Sun
This forlorn figure gazes down at a cream pie into which his head is destined to drop. The Times Literary Supplement
Opening my eyes, she peers back at me, looking forlorn and nervous, as the pale light of dawn steals across the morning sky.
{226} (1) While making all allowance for the feeling of insignificance and forlornness which is apt to overwhelm us when we begin to realise the immensity of the material universe, a little closer thought should make it obvious that nothing in the nature of mere bulk or bigness furnishes even a reasonable presumption, let alone a convincing argument, against the survival of the soul; it is indeed difficult to perceive what legitimate bearing these physical phenomena are supposed to have upon a purely spiritual question. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
Around that time, Drake called a friend, who said he could feel "the fear ... the dread, the forlornness" in Drake's voice. Former NSA executive Thomas A. Drake may pay high price for media leak
There are a few that have vocal hooks, some get awesomely chaotic and some are forlorn ballads.
Why should it expend men and treasure on the forlorn hope of supporting democracy abroad? Times, Sunday Times
Mark took one last look at the forlorn figure of Tina sitting at the table he had just abruptly left.
Nor does it, as some supporters of the project insist, either convey unsettling, dizzy-making sensations, or employ milder, aesthetically educational means to let the forlornness of the victims be heard.
The monk explained to the interviewer his belief that the bullock was a reincarnated soul and expressed the forlorn hope that Shambo might have been a veterinary surgeon in a previous life, in which case I suppose they think he got his just deserts. Previous lives
When Ruth reached the beach, she saw a forlorn figure sitting near the edge of the sea.
MS Dhoni and Harbhajan Singh could do nothing to halt the slide and when the beanpole figure of Ishant Sharma marked his guard, the scoreboard showed a forlorn 124 for eight. VVS Laxman shows special side again as India edge past Australia
The chimes and squiggling synths on ‘Run’ are forlorn reminders of this sound.
Usually the forlorn demesne was supervised by a mangy waiter brooding over mangy tables and by a mangier cat who kept a furtive eye on the placarded list of each day's _plat du jour_ and wondered when her turn would come for Thursday's _Sauté de lapin_. The Belovéd Vagabond
Meanwhile a forlorn figure leant against a goalpost long after the finish.
You think of all the nasty things that might have happened, especially so as he didn't even come back to gulp down the full glass of his favourite tipple which then stands forlornly on the table where he left it.
The shots were better than good and the swing rhythmic, but the young man in the white shirt still cut rather a forlorn figure.
Shabbily forlorn were that man's habiliments -- turned and re-turned, patched, darned, weather - stained, grease-stained -- but still retaining that kind of mouldy, grandiose, bastard gentility, which implies that the wearer has known better days; and, in the downward progress of fortunes when they once fall, may probably know still worse. What Will He Do with It? — Volume 10
So it might be a forlorn hope. The Sun
She was on the point of saying her final farewell when she fired one last, forlorn, hopeless shot, and scored a bull's-eye. A MEANS TO EVIL
She looked away and her eye caught a man lounging in the corner, looking alone and forlorn.
This theme is picked up with the album's cover art that shows him sitting in the middle of a streetcar lane with a forlorn look on his face, holding a disconnected receiver of a telephone in his hand.
They now rest forlorn in the local infants' school. Times, Sunday Times
The smile she'd had on her face slowly dissipated as a feeling of forlornness washed over her.
But these outcasts of the consumer boom have learned to make even a forlorn hope go a long way.
It'seemed a forlorn hope that we would find a taxi.

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