forlornly

How To Use forlornly In A Sentence

• There are books whose very titles induce guilt, since they're still lingering forlornly in the pile beside my bed. Mikita Brottman: Book Buying: A Record of Your Year
• 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.
• Abandoned picnic areas stand forlornly beside the road. Times, Sunday Times
• Instead, the stubble of last year's spring barley crop sticks forlornly out of the waterlogged ground where the winter wheat should have been.
• Tangled and corroded metal, red with age rather than by design protruded from the rock walls, and slick metal wallowed forlornly in the water, having finally succumbed to gravity's relentless pull.
• She seemed, of a sudden, as she leaned heavily on his arm, a presaging apparition out of the dim future, an adumbration of her own body grown frail and old, looking up to him for help, calling forlornly to him for solace. Phantom Wires A Novel
• I looked forlornly at my lunch: a tomato and cress sandwich. Times, Sunday Times
• In one of the book's most moving passages, Power describes Lemkin forlornly stalking the passages of the UN, dishevelled and faint from hunger, buttonholing any delegates or journalists who would listen.
• 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
• At the corner, the charcoal husk of a car smoldered forlornly, resting on its rims like a tired cow. Day of Honey